Patent ID: 9542420
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: G06F,H01J

Claim:
1. A method for solving a technical problem of managing increasing volumes of mass spectrometry data in biological experiments by CPU- and memory-intensive image processing so as to facilitate parallel processing, comprising: recording liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC/MS) spectra where biological substances are separated by retention time and by mass over charge by different instruments producing raw LC/MS data generated from different formats; unifying raw LC/MS data generated from different formats to create LC/MS images; chunking the LC/MS images into chunks to facilitate parallel processing, each chunk of each LC/MS image corresponding to the same ranges of retention time and mass over charge of another LC/MS image; compressing chunked LC/MS images to facilitate storage and input/output requirements; distributing the chunked LC/MS images to a multi-node cloud computing infrastructure; providing random access to data within a chunk to minimize number bytes service reads from storage and transferring to a computational node; and causing parallel processing.