About the Project

Introduction of the project and main goals

Data Mining on Carcinogen Rearrangements (CR) attempts to address the problem of finding patterns and relevant/useful information and knowledge from CR graph representations, involving pattern mining and sub-graph isomorphism and coloring problems, known to be NP-hard. The problem consists in identifying CR patterns across samples, with statistical relevance as tumor root cause or consequence in front of random noise, which would allow identifying potential markers with clinical value. DM-CANCER addresses the mining problem by representing data as graphs to apply heuristic methods form mining data, enhanced by Machine Learning methods like Neural Networks, used as generative models for prediction and forecasting of pattern components, also for learning multi-dimensional structured data. In addition, DM-CANCER proposes the use of computational distributed solutions for the mining process leveraging the most advanced supercomputing facilities.

Supercomputing for Bioinformatics

Core technologies used for carcinogen data processing

We propose novel architectures to process graphs through the CNNs and RNNs, leveraging parallel and scalable supercomputing environments towards treating the CR dataset. Processing data can be performed using the Apache Spark and Google Tensorflow frameworks, oriented towards distributed process scheduling and data availability scheduling, while datasets will be stored in distributed file systems HDFS, allowing fast access from learning elements to graph properties data, to validate their properties. Specialized and cutting-edge technologies like NVidia GPGPUs and Infiniband networking are also considered to accelerate graph and matrix operations and data communication.

People

DM-CANCER is composed by BSC researchers from the Computer Sciences department and the Life Sciences department