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Table 4 Running times of the variant analysis workflow in different clouds

From: MC-GenomeKey: a multicloud system for the detection and annotation of genomic variants

Exome (9.2 GB)

 

Amazon

Google

Azure

Alignment (BWA)

0:12:20

0:18:40

00:26:00

IndelRealigner

0:14:39

0:20:10

00:28:00

MarkDuplicates

0:15:29

0:23:06

00:35:00

BQSR

0:28:06

0:34:15

00:55:00

HaplotypeCaller

1:08:46

0:58:40

01:28:00

GenotypeGVCFs

0:14:23

0:12:40

00:17:00

VQSR

0:10:07

0:10:14

00:12:00

Merge VCF

0:05:07

0:04:55

00:10:00

Convert VCF to Annovar

0:00:13

0:00:10

00:00:15

Annotate

0:05:16

0:05:36

00:09:00

Merge Annotation

0:03:06

0:04:01

00:06:00

Total

1:51:33 ($21.414)

2:06:28 ($13.94)

3:12:00 ($31.24)

Whole Genome (113 GB)

 

Amazon

Google

Azure

Alignment (BWA)

8:03:53

8:10:13

11:18:20

IndelRealigner

3:04:03

3:09:34

04:15:58

MarkDuplicates

3:15:04

3:22:41

04:39:26

BQSR

4:11:14

4:17:23

06:35:44

HaplotypeCaller

9:05:43

9:15:49

14:29:22

GenotypeGVCFs

1:45:01

1:46:44

02:2:14

VQSR

1:33:29

1:33:36

02:05:13

Merge VCF

0:05:55

0:06:05

0:15:08

Convert VCF to Annovar

0:06:14

0:06:17

0:15:29

Annotate

0:15:01

0:15:21

0:24:39

Merge Annotation

0:10:06

0:11:01

0:23:07

Total

31:39:43 ($342.62)

32:13:06 ($208.07)

46:44:40 ($462)

  1. Running times (hours: minutes: seconds) of the variant analysis workflow in different clouds using a cluster of 4 nodes.  We give the time of different steps. The total time and cost (in USD) are in the rows titled “Total”. The best running times and options are underlined