{"id":3634,"date":"2024-06-29T11:41:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T09:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepttp.avidakizomba.co.za\/?p=3634"},"modified":"2025-06-09T12:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:11:48","slug":"parallel-algorithm-for-genotype-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/2024\/06\/29\/parallel-algorithm-for-genotype-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Parallel Algorithm for Genotype Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Researcher:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Taryn Michael, Sol Plaatje University<br \/><strong>Supervisor:<\/strong>\u00a0 Prof. Scott Hazelhurst, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Taryn Michael - Parallel Algorithm for Genotype Data.\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CYYgeRvk7O0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure><p>Genotype data helps understand how genetic variations lead to genetic diseases This data is extremely large to store and analyze efficiently Thus, the PLINK format was introduced to save storage space.&nbsp; This research implemented a data parallel algorithm in Rust to convert raw genotype data into the PLINK bed and bim format to speed up processing time<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"914\" src=\"https:\/\/nepttp.avidakizomba.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Taryn-Michael.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Taryn-Michael.png 640w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Taryn-Michael-600x857.png 600w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Taryn-Michael-210x300.png 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><p><br \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher:\u00a0\u00a0Taryn Michael, Sol Plaatje UniversitySupervisor:\u00a0 Prof. Scott Hazelhurst, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Genotype data helps understand how genetic variations lead to genetic diseases This data is extremely large to store and analyze efficiently Thus, the PLINK format was introduced to save storage space.&nbsp; This research implemented<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capstone-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4370,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions\/4370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}