Patent ID: 9703925
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G16B

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving sequence data, the sequence data comprising reads from one or more sequence data sources, each read including a sequence and a location coordinate, the location coordinate indicating a location of the sequence on a reference sequence; defining a sequence table, the sequence table being a database table having a sequence data field and a location data field; distributing the sequence data to a plurality of nodes of a parallel processing database system based on a distribution key, each node of the parallel processing database system comprising a processor configured to process a portion of the sequence table stored on the node locally to the processor and in parallel to other nodes, the distribution key comprising one or more data fields of the sequence table, wherein distributing the sequence data comprises: executing a same database query on each of the nodes of the parallel processing database system, the database query operable to retrieve an attribute or summary of the sequence data.