[Bioperl-l] FASTQ, was Re:BioPerl long-term, was Re: dependencies on perl version

[Fields, Christopher J]

I think we will want to allow for a multitude of implementations.  SeqIO already allows for that to a degree, but multiple backend implementations (say, different ways of parsing/processing FASTQ and others) isn't supported yet.

chris

On Feb 7, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Siddhartha Basu <sidd.basu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Another approach might be use map-reduce(Hadoop) if possible. I have
> seen one implementation in biopython's GFF3 parser.
> http://bcbio.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/mapreduce-implementation-of-gff-parsing-for-biopython/
> 
> -siddhartha
> 
> 
> On Thu, 07 Feb 2013, Aaron Mackey wrote:
> 
>> e.g., a pull-based FASTQ parser that did nothing else at the top level but
>> "chunk" the file into as-yet-unparsed four-line blobs could appear to work
>> very fast, if the user code did nothing but count the number of entries:
>> 
>>  while (my $seq = $seqio->nextseq) { $ct++ };
>> 
>> in other words, you defer *everything* except the minimal amount of
>> parsing/logic required to detect object boundaries.
>> 
>> This is, in fact, the exact opposite of the event-based SearchIO "push"
>> parsers, which always perform the most parsing possible, despite the user
>> never accessing most of the material.
>> 
>> Lastly, with respect to performance, if the parsing/object building
>> operation is not simply IO bound, then parallel parser/object-building CPU
>> threads could be considered, which could then dynamically adapt to
>> pre-parse attributes (e.g. quality scores) that the calling code was
>> actually using.  What's the state of thread-safe Perl these days?
>> 
>> -Aaron
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Fields, Christopher J <
>> cjfields at illinois.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> This will likely be the approach for more NGS-friendly Bio::Seq class.
>>> Calculation of the PHRED scores could also be deferred until needed.
>>> 
>>> seqtk has some C-based methods that we could possibly take advantage of,
>>> but will have to look into it.
>>> 
>>> chris
>>> 
>>> On Feb 7, 2013, at 9:25 AM, Aaron Mackey <amackey at virginia.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> You might also want to consider a lazy/pull-based parser to defer
>>> parsing/object-building for pieces of the object that don't get used.  This
>>> also usually provides some error tolerance.
>>>> 
>>>> -Aaron
>>> 
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