diff --git a/genomix/genomix-hadoop/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/hadoop/graphclean/mergepaths/h3/TestPathMergeH3.java b/genomix/genomix-hadoop/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/hadoop/graphclean/mergepaths/h3/TestPathMergeH3.java
index 7db3db5..bac2a45 100644
--- a/genomix/genomix-hadoop/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/hadoop/graphclean/mergepaths/h3/TestPathMergeH3.java
+++ b/genomix/genomix-hadoop/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/hadoop/graphclean/mergepaths/h3/TestPathMergeH3.java
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     protected String PATHMERGE_FILE = "mergepath.result";
     protected boolean regenerateGraph = true;
     
-    {
+    {w
         KMER_LENGTH = 5;
         READ_LENGTH = 8;
         HDFS_PATHS = new ArrayList<String>(Arrays.asList(HDFS_SEQUENCE, HDFS_GRAPHBUILD, HDFS_MARKPATHS, HDFS_MERGED));
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/bridgeremove/txt/.bridgeremove.crc b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/bridgeremove/txt/.bridgeremove.crc
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/bridgeremove/txt/.bridgeremove.crc
+++ /dev/null
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/bridgeremove/txt/bridgeremove b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/bridgeremove/txt/bridgeremove
deleted file mode 100755
index e5fb406..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/bridgeremove/txt/bridgeremove
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-(2,1)([(2,2)]	[]	[]	[]	GCC)
-(1,1)([(1,2)]	[]	[]	[]	AAT)
-(2,2)([(2,3)]	[]	[]	[(2,1),(3,1)]	CCT)
-(1,2)([(1,3),(3,1)]	[]	[]	[(1,1)]	ATA)
-(2,3)([]	[]	[]	[(2,2)]	CTAGCA)
-(1,3)([]	[]	[]	[(1,2)]	TAGAAC)
-(3,1)([(2,2)]	[]	[]	[(1,2)]	TAGCCT)
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/bubble_merge/txt/.bubble_merge.crc b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/bubble_merge/txt/.bubble_merge.crc
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/bubble_merge/txt/.bubble_merge.crc
+++ /dev/null
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/bubble_merge/txt/bubble_merge b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/bubble_merge/txt/bubble_merge
deleted file mode 100755
index 22d58bf..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/bubble_merge/txt/bubble_merge
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-(1,5)([]	[]	[]	[(1,4)]	GAAC)
-(2,1)([(1,4)]	[]	[]	[(1,2)]	TAGCCAG)
-(1,1)([(1,2)]	[]	[]	[]	AAT)
-(1,2)([(1,3),(2,1)]	[]	[]	[(1,1)]	ATA)
-(1,4)([(1,5)]	[]	[]	[(1,3),(2,1)]	AGA)
-(1,3)([(1,4)]	[]	[]	[(1,2)]	TAG)
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/bubble_remove/txt/.bubble.crc b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/bubble_remove/txt/.bubble.crc
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/bubble_remove/txt/.bubble.crc
+++ /dev/null
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/bubble_remove/txt/bubble b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/bubble_remove/txt/bubble
deleted file mode 100755
index d250792..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/bubble_remove/txt/bubble
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-(1,5)([]	[]	[]	[(1,4)]	GAAC)
-(2,1)([(1,4)]	[]	[]	[(1,2)]	TAG)
-(1,1)([(1,2)]	[]	[]	[]	AAT)
-(1,2)([(1,3),(2,1)]	[]	[]	[(1,1)]	ATA)
-(1,4)([(1,5)]	[]	[]	[(1,3),(2,1)]	AGA)
-(1,3)([(1,4)]	[]	[]	[(1,2)]	TAG)
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/graphbuild.test/read.txt b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/graphbuild.test/read.txt
deleted file mode 100755
index 37f02de..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/graphbuild.test/read.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-1	AATAGAA
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/graphbuild.test/repeat.txt b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/graphbuild.test/repeat.txt
deleted file mode 100755
index 64e3de8..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/graphbuild.test/repeat.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-1	AATAGAAC
-2	TAGAACTG
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/graphbuild.test/repeat2.txt b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/graphbuild.test/repeat2.txt
deleted file mode 100755
index c065d06..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/graphbuild.test/repeat2.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-1	AATAGAAC
-2	TAGAAGAT
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/graphbuild.test/text.txt b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/graphbuild.test/text.txt
deleted file mode 100755
index f9e7e07..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/graphbuild.test/text.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-1	AATAGAAGG
-2	ATAGAAACC
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/graphbuild.test/text.txt~ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/graphbuild.test/text.txt~
deleted file mode 100755
index ba651ae..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/graphbuild.test/text.txt~
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-1	AATAGAA
-2	ATAGAAA
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/graphbuild.test/tip.txt b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/graphbuild.test/tip.txt
deleted file mode 100755
index 62a6fd7..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/graphbuild.test/tip.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-1	AATAGAAC
-2	GAAGGTCC
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/graphbuild.test/tworeads.txt b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/graphbuild.test/tworeads.txt
deleted file mode 100755
index 62a6fd7..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/graphbuild.test/tworeads.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-1	AATAGAAC
-2	GAAGGTCC
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/pathmerge/part-0 b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/pathmerge/part-0
deleted file mode 100755
index 56056ab..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/pathmerge/part-0
+++ /dev/null
Binary files differ
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/pathmerge/part-1 b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/pathmerge/part-1
deleted file mode 100755
index 95701ce..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/pathmerge/part-1
+++ /dev/null
Binary files differ
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/pathmerge/part-2 b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/pathmerge/part-2
deleted file mode 100755
index 6bb6633..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/pathmerge/part-2
+++ /dev/null
Binary files differ
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/test/part-2 b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/test/part-2
deleted file mode 100755
index 9098ad0..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/test/part-2
+++ /dev/null
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diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/test/part-3 b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/test/part-3
deleted file mode 100755
index 9cfb024..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/test/part-3
+++ /dev/null
Binary files differ
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tipremove/part-0 b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tipremove/part-0
deleted file mode 100755
index d45f051..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tipremove/part-0
+++ /dev/null
Binary files differ
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tipremove/part-1 b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tipremove/part-1
deleted file mode 100755
index d50e98a..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tipremove/part-1
+++ /dev/null
Binary files differ
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tipremove/part-2 b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tipremove/part-2
deleted file mode 100755
index 6ed28d6..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tipremove/part-2
+++ /dev/null
Binary files differ
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tipremove/part-3 b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tipremove/part-3
deleted file mode 100755
index 4734cf2..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tipremove/part-3
+++ /dev/null
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diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tipremove/part-4 b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tipremove/part-4
deleted file mode 100755
index 84cd77d..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tipremove/part-4
+++ /dev/null
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diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tipremove/part-5 b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tipremove/part-5
deleted file mode 100755
index 9143122..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tipremove/part-5
+++ /dev/null
Binary files differ
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tipremove/part-6 b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tipremove/part-6
deleted file mode 100755
index 14c675c..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tipremove/part-6
+++ /dev/null
Binary files differ
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tipremove/part-7 b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tipremove/part-7
deleted file mode 100755
index 0c9ca53..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tipremove/part-7
+++ /dev/null
Binary files differ
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/test/part-0 b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tworeads/part-0
similarity index 65%
rename from genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/test/part-0
rename to genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tworeads/part-0
index 0b15880..271cd2b 100755
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/test/part-0
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tworeads/part-0
Binary files differ
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/test/part-1 b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tworeads/part-1
similarity index 81%
rename from genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/test/part-1
rename to genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tworeads/part-1
index b68421a..30c05e6 100755
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/test/part-1
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tworeads/part-1
Binary files differ
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tworeads/part-2 b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tworeads/part-2
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..4b8e2c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tworeads/part-2
Binary files differ
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/pathmerge/part-3 b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tworeads/part-3
similarity index 65%
rename from genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/pathmerge/part-3
rename to genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tworeads/part-3
index caa63de..9fa10d6 100755
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/pathmerge/part-3
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/input/tworeads/part-3
Binary files differ
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/test/result.graphbuild.bidirectional.txt b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/test/result.graphbuild.bidirectional.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index a41ce56..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/test/result.graphbuild.bidirectional.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-((2,1)	[(2,3)]	[]	[]	[]	AATAGA)	(null)
-((2,3)	[(6,1),(2,4)]	[]	[]	[(2,1)]	TAGAA)	(null)
-((2,4)	[(6,2)]	[]	[]	[(2,3)]	AGAAG)	(null)
-((4,1)	[(4,3)]	[]	[]	[]	AATAGA)	(null)
-((4,3)	[(6,1),(4,4)]	[]	[]	[(4,1)]	TAGAA)	(null)
-((4,4)	[(6,2)]	[]	[]	[(4,3)]	AGAAG)	(null)
-((6,1)	[(6,2)]	[]	[]	[(2,3),(1,3),(3,3),(4,3),(5,3)]	AGAAG)	(null)
-((6,2)	[(6,3)]	[]	[]	[(2,4),(3,4),(1,4),(4,4),(5,4),(6,1)]	GAAGA)	(null)
-((6,3)	[]	[]	[]	[(6,2)]	AAGAAG)	(null)
-((1,1)	[(1,3)]	[]	[]	[]	AATAGA)	(null)
-((1,3)	[(6,1),(1,4)]	[]	[]	[(1,1)]	TAGAA)	(null)
-((1,4)	[(6,2)]	[]	[]	[(1,3)]	AGAAG)	(null)
-((3,1)	[(3,3)]	[]	[]	[]	AATAGA)	(null)
-((3,3)	[(6,1),(3,4)]	[]	[]	[(3,1)]	TAGAA)	(null)
-((3,4)	[(6,2)]	[]	[]	[(3,3)]	AGAAG)	(null)
-((5,1)	[(5,3)]	[]	[]	[]	AATAGA)	(null)
-((5,3)	[(6,1),(5,4)]	[]	[]	[(5,1)]	TAGAA)	(null)
-((5,4)	[(6,2)]	[]	[]	[(5,3)]	AGAAG)	(null)
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/test/result.graphbuild.txt.bin b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/test/result.graphbuild.txt.bin
deleted file mode 100644
index 4865aeb..0000000
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/data/test/result.graphbuild.txt.bin
+++ /dev/null
Binary files differ
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/format/DataCleanOutputFormat.java b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/format/DataCleanOutputFormat.java
index 9e2e5f0..1a961d8 100644
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/format/DataCleanOutputFormat.java
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/format/DataCleanOutputFormat.java
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@
         @Override
         public void writeVertex(Vertex<PositionWritable, VertexValueWritable, NullWritable, ?> vertex)
                 throws IOException, InterruptedException {
-            if(vertex.getVertexValue().getState() != MessageFlag.IS_OLDHEAD)
-                getRecordWriter().write(vertex.getVertexId(), vertex.getVertexValue());
+            //if(vertex.getVertexValue().getState() != MessageFlag.IS_OLDHEAD)
+            getRecordWriter().write(vertex.getVertexId(), vertex.getVertexValue());
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/io/MessageWritable.java b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/io/MessageWritable.java
index 314dff6..979f5f2 100644
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/io/MessageWritable.java
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/io/MessageWritable.java
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.WritableComparable;
 
-import edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.type.AdjMessage;
 import edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.type.CheckMessage;
 import edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.type.Message;
 import edu.uci.ics.genomix.type.KmerBytesWritable;
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/operator/bridgeremove/BridgeRemoveVertex.java b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/operator/bridgeremove/BridgeRemoveVertex.java
index cf312db..91bb9cb 100644
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/operator/bridgeremove/BridgeRemoveVertex.java
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/operator/bridgeremove/BridgeRemoveVertex.java
@@ -2,16 +2,15 @@
 
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Iterator;
-import org.apache.hadoop.io.NullWritable;
 
 import edu.uci.ics.genomix.type.PositionWritable;
-import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.api.graph.Vertex;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.api.job.PregelixJob;
 import edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.client.Client;
 import edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.format.DataCleanInputFormat;
 import edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.format.DataCleanOutputFormat;
 import edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.io.MessageWritable;
 import edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.io.VertexValueWritable;
+import edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.operator.pathmerge.BasicPathMergeVertex;
 import edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.type.AdjMessage;
 import edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.util.VertexUtil;
 
@@ -47,20 +46,12 @@
  * Naive Algorithm for path merge graph
  */
 public class BridgeRemoveVertex extends
-        Vertex<PositionWritable, VertexValueWritable, NullWritable, MessageWritable> {
-    public static final String KMER_SIZE = "BridgeRemoveVertex.kmerSize";
+    BasicPathMergeVertex {
     public static final String LENGTH = "BridgeRemoveVertex.length";
-    public static int kmerSize = -1;
     private int length = -1;
 
-    private MessageWritable incomingMsg = new MessageWritable();
-    private MessageWritable outgoingMsg = new MessageWritable();
     private ArrayList<MessageWritable> receivedMsgList = new ArrayList<MessageWritable>();
-    
-    private Iterator<PositionWritable> iterator;
-    private PositionWritable pos = new PositionWritable();
-    private PositionWritable destVertexId = new PositionWritable();
-    private Iterator<PositionWritable> posIterator;
+   
     /**
      * initiate kmerSize, maxIteration
      */
@@ -74,46 +65,6 @@
     }
     
     /**
-     * head send message to all next nodes
-     */
-    public void sendMsgToAllNextNodes(VertexValueWritable value) {
-        posIterator = value.getFFList().iterator(); // FFList
-        while(posIterator.hasNext()){
-            outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMFF);
-            outgoingMsg.setSourceVertexId(getVertexId());
-            destVertexId.set(posIterator.next());
-            sendMsg(destVertexId, outgoingMsg);
-        }
-        posIterator = value.getFRList().iterator(); // FRList
-        while(posIterator.hasNext()){
-            outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMFR);
-            outgoingMsg.setSourceVertexId(getVertexId());
-            destVertexId.set(posIterator.next());
-            sendMsg(destVertexId, outgoingMsg);
-        }
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * head send message to all previous nodes
-     */
-    public void sendMsgToAllPreviousNodes(VertexValueWritable value) {
-        posIterator = value.getRFList().iterator(); // RFList
-        while(posIterator.hasNext()){
-            outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMRF);
-            outgoingMsg.setSourceVertexId(getVertexId());
-            destVertexId.set(posIterator.next());
-            sendMsg(destVertexId, outgoingMsg);
-        }
-        posIterator = value.getRRList().iterator(); // RRList
-        while(posIterator.hasNext()){
-            outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMRR);
-            outgoingMsg.setSourceVertexId(getVertexId());
-            destVertexId.set(posIterator.next());
-            sendMsg(destVertexId, outgoingMsg);
-        }
-    }
-    
-    /**
      * broadcast kill self to all neighbers 
      */
     public void broadcaseKillself(){
@@ -129,21 +80,21 @@
                 && receivedMsgList.get(1).getFlag() == AdjMessage.FROMRF) {
             outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMRR);
             sendMsg(receivedMsgList.get(0).getSourceVertexId(), outgoingMsg);
-            outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMFR);
+            outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMRF);
             sendMsg(receivedMsgList.get(1).getSourceVertexId(), outgoingMsg);
             deleteVertex(getVertexId());
         } else if (receivedMsgList.get(0).getFlag() == AdjMessage.FROMFR 
                 && receivedMsgList.get(1).getFlag() == AdjMessage.FROMRR) {
-            outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMRF);
+            outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMFR);
             sendMsg(receivedMsgList.get(0).getSourceVertexId(), outgoingMsg);
             outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMFF);
             sendMsg(receivedMsgList.get(1).getSourceVertexId(), outgoingMsg);
             deleteVertex(getVertexId());
         } else if (receivedMsgList.get(0).getFlag() == AdjMessage.FROMFR 
                 && receivedMsgList.get(1).getFlag() == AdjMessage.FROMRF) {
-            outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMRF);
-            sendMsg(receivedMsgList.get(0).getSourceVertexId(), outgoingMsg);
             outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMFR);
+            sendMsg(receivedMsgList.get(0).getSourceVertexId(), outgoingMsg);
+            outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMRF);
             sendMsg(receivedMsgList.get(1).getSourceVertexId(), outgoingMsg);
             deleteVertex(getVertexId());
         } // RR
@@ -158,74 +109,25 @@
                 && receivedMsgList.get(0).getFlag() == AdjMessage.FROMRF) {
             outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMRR);
             sendMsg(receivedMsgList.get(1).getSourceVertexId(), outgoingMsg);
-            outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMFR);
+            outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMRF);
             sendMsg(receivedMsgList.get(0).getSourceVertexId(), outgoingMsg);
             deleteVertex(getVertexId());
         } else if (receivedMsgList.get(1).getFlag() == AdjMessage.FROMFR 
                 && receivedMsgList.get(0).getFlag() == AdjMessage.FROMRR) {
-            outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMRF);
+            outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMFR);
             sendMsg(receivedMsgList.get(1).getSourceVertexId(), outgoingMsg);
             outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMFF);
             sendMsg(receivedMsgList.get(0).getSourceVertexId(), outgoingMsg);
             deleteVertex(getVertexId());
         } else if (receivedMsgList.get(1).getFlag() == AdjMessage.FROMFR 
                 && receivedMsgList.get(0).getFlag() == AdjMessage.FROMRF) {
-            outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMRF);
-            sendMsg(receivedMsgList.get(1).getSourceVertexId(), outgoingMsg);
             outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMFR);
+            sendMsg(receivedMsgList.get(1).getSourceVertexId(), outgoingMsg);
+            outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMRF);
             sendMsg(receivedMsgList.get(0).getSourceVertexId(), outgoingMsg);
             deleteVertex(getVertexId());
-        }
-    }
-    
-    /**
-     * do some remove operations on adjMap after receiving the info about dead Vertex
-     */
-    public void responseToDeadVertex(Iterator<MessageWritable> msgIterator){
-        while (msgIterator.hasNext()) {
-            incomingMsg = msgIterator.next();
-            if(incomingMsg.getFlag() == AdjMessage.FROMFF){
-                //remove incomingMsg.getSourceId from RR positionList
-                iterator = getVertexValue().getRRList().iterator();
-                while(iterator.hasNext()){
-                    pos = iterator.next();
-                    if(pos.equals(incomingMsg.getSourceVertexId())){
-                        iterator.remove();
-                        break;
-                    }
-                }
-            } else if(incomingMsg.getFlag() == AdjMessage.FROMFR){
-                //remove incomingMsg.getSourceId from RF positionList
-                iterator = getVertexValue().getRFList().iterator();
-                while(iterator.hasNext()){
-                    pos = iterator.next();
-                    if(pos.equals(incomingMsg.getSourceVertexId())){
-                        iterator.remove();
-                        break;
-                    }
-                }
-            } else if(incomingMsg.getFlag() == AdjMessage.FROMRF){
-                //remove incomingMsg.getSourceId from FR positionList
-                iterator = getVertexValue().getFRList().iterator();
-                while(iterator.hasNext()){
-                    pos = iterator.next();
-                    if(pos.equals(incomingMsg.getSourceVertexId())){
-                        iterator.remove();
-                        break;
-                    }
-                }
-            } else{ //incomingMsg.getFlag() == AdjMessage.FROMRR
-                //remove incomingMsg.getSourceId from FF positionList
-                iterator = getVertexValue().getFFList().iterator();
-                while(iterator.hasNext()){
-                    pos = iterator.next();
-                    if(pos.equals(incomingMsg.getSourceVertexId())){
-                        iterator.remove();
-                        break;
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-        }
+        } else
+            voteToHalt();
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -233,11 +135,11 @@
         initVertex();
         if (getSuperstep() == 1) {
             if(VertexUtil.isUpBridgeVertex(getVertexValue())){
-                sendMsgToAllNextNodes(getVertexValue());
+                sendSettledMsgToAllNextNodes(getVertexValue());
             }
-           else if(VertexUtil.isDownBridgeVertex(getVertexValue())){
-                sendMsgToAllPreviousNodes(getVertexValue());
-           }
+            else if(VertexUtil.isDownBridgeVertex(getVertexValue())){
+                sendSettledMsgToAllPreviousNodes(getVertexValue());
+            }
         }
         else if (getSuperstep() == 2){
             int i = 0;
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/operator/bubblemerge/BubbleMergeVertex.java b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/operator/bubblemerge/BubbleMergeVertex.java
index cd449b5..4cb6b39 100644
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/operator/bubblemerge/BubbleMergeVertex.java
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/operator/bubblemerge/BubbleMergeVertex.java
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@
                 }
             } else if(incomingMsg.getMessage() == AdjMessage.FROMFR){
                 //remove incomingMsg.getSourceId from RF positionList
-                iterator = getVertexValue().getRFList().iterator();
+                iterator = getVertexValue().getFRList().iterator();
                 while(iterator.hasNext()){
                     pos = iterator.next();
                     if(pos.equals(incomingMsg.getSourceVertexId())){
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
                 }
             } else if(incomingMsg.getMessage() == AdjMessage.FROMRF){
                 //remove incomingMsg.getSourceId from FR positionList
-                iterator = getVertexValue().getFRList().iterator();
+                iterator = getVertexValue().getRFList().iterator();
                 while(iterator.hasNext()){
                     pos = iterator.next();
                     if(pos.equals(incomingMsg.getSourceVertexId())){
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/operator/pathmerge/BasicPathMergeVertex.java b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/operator/pathmerge/BasicPathMergeVertex.java
index c8d1852..05716fe 100644
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/operator/pathmerge/BasicPathMergeVertex.java
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/operator/pathmerge/BasicPathMergeVertex.java
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.api.graph.Vertex;
 import edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.io.MessageWritable;
 import edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.io.VertexValueWritable;
+import edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.type.AdjMessage;
 import edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.type.MessageFlag;
 import edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.util.VertexUtil;
 
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@
     protected MessageWritable outgoingMsg = new MessageWritable();
     protected PositionWritable destVertexId = new PositionWritable();
     protected Iterator<PositionWritable> posIterator;
+    private PositionWritable pos = new PositionWritable();
     byte headFlag;
     protected byte outFlag;
     protected byte inFlag;
@@ -140,6 +142,47 @@
             sendMsg(destVertexId, outgoingMsg);
         }
     }
+    
+    /**
+     * head send message to all next nodes
+     */
+    public void sendSettledMsgToAllNextNodes(VertexValueWritable value) {
+        posIterator = value.getFFList().iterator(); // FFList
+        while(posIterator.hasNext()){
+            outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMFF);
+            outgoingMsg.setSourceVertexId(getVertexId());
+            destVertexId.set(posIterator.next());
+            sendMsg(destVertexId, outgoingMsg);
+        }
+        posIterator = value.getFRList().iterator(); // FRList
+        while(posIterator.hasNext()){
+            outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMFR);
+            outgoingMsg.setSourceVertexId(getVertexId());
+            destVertexId.set(posIterator.next());
+            sendMsg(destVertexId, outgoingMsg);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * head send message to all previous nodes
+     */
+    public void sendSettledMsgToAllPreviousNodes(VertexValueWritable value) {
+        posIterator = value.getRFList().iterator(); // RFList
+        while(posIterator.hasNext()){
+            outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMRF);
+            outgoingMsg.setSourceVertexId(getVertexId());
+            destVertexId.set(posIterator.next());
+            sendMsg(destVertexId, outgoingMsg);
+        }
+        posIterator = value.getRRList().iterator(); // RRList
+        while(posIterator.hasNext()){
+            outgoingMsg.setFlag(AdjMessage.FROMRR);
+            outgoingMsg.setSourceVertexId(getVertexId());
+            destVertexId.set(posIterator.next());
+            sendMsg(destVertexId, outgoingMsg);
+        }
+    }
+    
     /**
      * start sending message
      */
@@ -511,6 +554,56 @@
         selfFlag =(byte)(getVertexValue().getState() & MessageFlag.VERTEX_MASK);
     }
     
+    /**
+     * do some remove operations on adjMap after receiving the info about dead Vertex
+     */
+    public void responseToDeadVertex(Iterator<MessageWritable> msgIterator){
+        while (msgIterator.hasNext()) {
+            incomingMsg = msgIterator.next();
+            if(incomingMsg.getFlag() == AdjMessage.FROMFF){
+                //remove incomingMsg.getSourceId from RR positionList
+                posIterator = getVertexValue().getRRList().iterator();
+                while(posIterator.hasNext()){
+                    pos = posIterator.next();
+                    if(pos.equals(incomingMsg.getSourceVertexId())){
+                        posIterator.remove();
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+            } else if(incomingMsg.getFlag() == AdjMessage.FROMFR){
+                //remove incomingMsg.getSourceId from FR positionList
+                posIterator = getVertexValue().getFRList().iterator();
+                while(posIterator.hasNext()){
+                    pos = posIterator.next();
+                    if(pos.equals(incomingMsg.getSourceVertexId())){
+                        posIterator.remove();
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+            } else if(incomingMsg.getFlag() == AdjMessage.FROMRF){
+                //remove incomingMsg.getSourceId from RF positionList
+                posIterator = getVertexValue().getRFList().iterator();
+                while(posIterator.hasNext()){
+                    pos = posIterator.next();
+                    if(pos.equals(incomingMsg.getSourceVertexId())){
+                        posIterator.remove();
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+            } else{ //incomingMsg.getFlag() == AdjMessage.FROMRR
+                //remove incomingMsg.getSourceId from FF positionList
+                posIterator = getVertexValue().getFFList().iterator();
+                while(posIterator.hasNext()){
+                    pos = posIterator.next();
+                    if(pos.equals(incomingMsg.getSourceVertexId())){
+                        posIterator.remove();
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    
     @Override
     public void compute(Iterator<MessageWritable> msgIterator) {
     }
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/operator/tipremove/TipRemoveVertex.java b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/operator/tipremove/TipRemoveVertex.java
index dec2d48..26a66e8 100644
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/operator/tipremove/TipRemoveVertex.java
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/operator/tipremove/TipRemoveVertex.java
@@ -1,16 +1,15 @@
 package edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.operator.tipremove;
 
 import java.util.Iterator;
-import org.apache.hadoop.io.NullWritable;
 
 import edu.uci.ics.genomix.type.PositionWritable;
-import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.api.graph.Vertex;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.api.job.PregelixJob;
 import edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.client.Client;
 import edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.format.DataCleanInputFormat;
 import edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.format.DataCleanOutputFormat;
 import edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.io.MessageWritable;
 import edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.io.VertexValueWritable;
+import edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.operator.pathmerge.BasicPathMergeVertex;
 import edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.type.AdjMessage;
 import edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.util.VertexUtil;
 
@@ -46,19 +45,9 @@
  *  Remove tip or single node when l > constant
  */
 public class TipRemoveVertex extends
-        Vertex<PositionWritable, VertexValueWritable, NullWritable, MessageWritable> {
-    public static final String KMER_SIZE = "TipRemoveVertex.kmerSize";
+        BasicPathMergeVertex {
     public static final String LENGTH = "TipRemoveVertex.length";
-    public static int kmerSize = -1;
     private int length = -1;
-
-    private MessageWritable incomingMsg = new MessageWritable();
-    private MessageWritable outgoingMsg = new MessageWritable();
-    
-    private Iterator<PositionWritable> iterator;
-    private PositionWritable pos = new PositionWritable();
-    private PositionWritable destVertexId = new PositionWritable();
-    private Iterator<PositionWritable> posIterator;
     
     /**
      * initiate kmerSize, length
@@ -70,25 +59,6 @@
             length = getContext().getConfiguration().getInt(LENGTH, kmerSize); //kmerSize + 5
         outgoingMsg.reset();
     }
-    
-    /**
-     * get destination vertex
-     */
-    public PositionWritable getNextDestVertexId(VertexValueWritable value) {
-        if(value.getFFList().getCountOfPosition() > 0) // #FFList() > 0
-            posIterator = value.getFFList().iterator();
-        else // #FRList() > 0
-            posIterator = value.getFRList().iterator();
-        return posIterator.next();
-    }
-
-    public PositionWritable getPreDestVertexId(VertexValueWritable value) {
-        if(value.getRFList().getCountOfPosition() > 0) // #RFList() > 0
-            posIterator = value.getRFList().iterator();
-        else // #RRList() > 0
-            posIterator = value.getRRList().iterator();
-        return posIterator.next();
-    }
 
     @Override
     public void compute(Iterator<MessageWritable> msgIterator) {
@@ -124,50 +94,7 @@
             }
         }
         else if(getSuperstep() == 2){
-            while (msgIterator.hasNext()) {
-                incomingMsg = msgIterator.next();
-                if(incomingMsg.getFlag() == AdjMessage.FROMFF){
-                    //remove incomingMsg.getSourceId from RR positionList
-                    iterator = getVertexValue().getRRList().iterator();
-                    while(iterator.hasNext()){
-                        pos = iterator.next();
-                        if(pos.equals(incomingMsg.getSourceVertexId())){
-                            iterator.remove();
-                            break;
-                        }
-                    }
-                } else if(incomingMsg.getFlag() == AdjMessage.FROMFR){
-                    //remove incomingMsg.getSourceId from RF positionList
-                    iterator = getVertexValue().getRFList().iterator();
-                    while(iterator.hasNext()){
-                        pos = iterator.next();
-                        if(pos.equals(incomingMsg.getSourceVertexId())){
-                            iterator.remove();
-                            break;
-                        }
-                    }
-                } else if(incomingMsg.getFlag() == AdjMessage.FROMRF){
-                    //remove incomingMsg.getSourceId from FR positionList
-                    iterator = getVertexValue().getFRList().iterator();
-                    while(iterator.hasNext()){
-                        pos = iterator.next();
-                        if(pos.equals(incomingMsg.getSourceVertexId())){
-                            iterator.remove();
-                            break;
-                        }
-                    }
-                } else{ //incomingMsg.getFlag() == AdjMessage.FROMRR
-                    //remove incomingMsg.getSourceId from FF positionList
-                    iterator = getVertexValue().getFFList().iterator();
-                    while(iterator.hasNext()){
-                        pos = iterator.next();
-                        if(pos.equals(incomingMsg.getSourceVertexId())){
-                            iterator.remove();
-                            break;
-                        }
-                    }
-                }
-            }
+            responseToDeadVertex(msgIterator);
         }
         voteToHalt();
     }
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobGen/JobGenerator.java b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobGen/JobGenerator.java
index 0a366db..62e5725 100644
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobGen/JobGenerator.java
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobGen/JobGenerator.java
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
     private static void generateP4ForMergeGraphJob(String jobName, String outputPath) throws IOException {
         PregelixJob job = new PregelixJob(jobName);
         job.setVertexClass(P4ForPathMergeVertex.class);
-        job.setVertexInputFormatClass(NaiveAlgorithmForPathMergeInputFormat.class);
+        job.setVertexInputFormatClass(DataCleanInputFormat.class);
         job.setVertexOutputFormatClass(DataCleanOutputFormat.class);
         job.setDynamicVertexValueSize(true);
         job.setOutputKeyClass(PositionWritable.class);
@@ -201,15 +201,15 @@
     
     public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
         //genNaiveAlgorithmForMergeGraph();
-        genLogAlgorithmForMergeGraph();
+        //genLogAlgorithmForMergeGraph();
         //genP3ForMergeGraph();
-        //genTipAddGraph();
-        //genTipRemoveGraph();
-        //genBridgeAddGraph();
-        //genBridgeRemoveGraph();
-        //genBubbleAddGraph();
-        //genBubbleMergeGraph();
-        //genP4ForMergeGraph();
+        genTipAddGraph();
+        genTipRemoveGraph();
+        genBridgeAddGraph();
+        genBridgeRemoveGraph();
+        genBubbleAddGraph();
+        genBubbleMergeGraph();
+        genP4ForMergeGraph();
     }
 
 }
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobRun/PathMergeSmallTestCase.java b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobRun/BasicSmallTestCase.java
similarity index 94%
rename from genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobRun/PathMergeSmallTestCase.java
rename to genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobRun/BasicSmallTestCase.java
index 4405134..e138348 100644
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobRun/PathMergeSmallTestCase.java
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobRun/BasicSmallTestCase.java
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.driver.Driver;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.util.PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil;
 
-public class PathMergeSmallTestCase extends TestCase {
+public class BasicSmallTestCase extends TestCase {
     private final PregelixJob job;
     private final String resultFileDir;
     private final String textFileDir;
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
     private final Driver driver = new Driver(this.getClass());
     private final FileSystem dfs;
 
-    public PathMergeSmallTestCase(String hadoopConfPath, String jobName, String jobFile, FileSystem dfs,
+    public BasicSmallTestCase(String hadoopConfPath, String jobName, String jobFile, FileSystem dfs,
             String hdfsInput, String resultFile, String textFile) throws Exception {
         super("test");
         this.jobFile = jobFile;
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobRun/BridgeRemoveSmallTestSuite.java b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobRun/BridgeRemoveSmallTestSuite.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eee495c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobRun/BridgeRemoveSmallTestSuite.java
@@ -0,0 +1,210 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2009-2010 by The Regents of the University of California
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * you may obtain a copy of the License from
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.JobRun;
+
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.DataOutputStream;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+import junit.framework.Test;
+import junit.framework.TestResult;
+import junit.framework.TestSuite;
+
+import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf;
+
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.jobgen.clusterconfig.ClusterConfig;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.util.PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil;
+
+@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
+public class BridgeRemoveSmallTestSuite extends TestSuite {
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(BridgeRemoveSmallTestSuite.class.getName());
+
+    public static final String PreFix = "data/input"; //"graphbuildresult";
+    public static final String[] TestDir = { PreFix + File.separator
+    + "pathmerge"};/*, PreFix + File.separator
+            /*+ "CyclePath"};, PreFix + File.separator
+            + "SimplePath", PreFix + File.separator
+            + "SinglePath", PreFix + File.separator
+            + "TreePath"};*/
+           /* + "2", PreFix + File.separator + "3", PreFix + File.separator + "4", PreFix + File.separator + "5",
+            PreFix + File.separator + "6", PreFix + File.separator + "7", PreFix + File.separator + "8",
+            PreFix + File.separator + "9", PreFix + File.separator + "TwoKmer", PreFix + File.separator + "ThreeKmer",
+            PreFix + File.separator + "SinglePath", PreFix + File.separator + "SimplePath",
+            PreFix + File.separator + "Path", PreFix + File.separator + "BridgePath",
+            PreFix + File.separator + "CyclePath", PreFix + File.separator + "RingPath",
+            PreFix + File.separator + "LongPath", PreFix + File.separator + "TreePath" };*/
+    private static final String ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR = "actual";
+    private static final String PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF = "src/test/resources/hadoop/conf";
+    private static final String PATH_TO_CLUSTER_STORE = "src/test/resources/cluster/stores.properties";
+    private static final String PATH_TO_CLUSTER_PROPERTIES = "src/test/resources/cluster/cluster.properties";
+    private static final String PATH_TO_JOBS = "src/test/resources/jobs/";
+    private static final String PATH_TO_ONLY = "src/test/resources/only.txt";
+
+    public static final String HDFS_INPUTPATH = "/PathTestSet";
+
+    private static final String HADOOP_CONF_PATH = ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR + File.separator + "conf.xml";
+    private MiniDFSCluster dfsCluster;
+
+    private JobConf conf = new JobConf();
+    private int numberOfNC = 2;
+
+    public void setUp() throws Exception {
+        ClusterConfig.setStorePath(PATH_TO_CLUSTER_STORE);
+        ClusterConfig.setClusterPropertiesPath(PATH_TO_CLUSTER_PROPERTIES);
+        cleanupStores();
+        PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.init("src/test/resources/topology.xml");
+        LOGGER.info("Hyracks mini-cluster started");
+        FileUtils.forceMkdir(new File(ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR));
+        FileUtils.cleanDirectory(new File(ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR));
+        startHDFS();
+    }
+
+    private void startHDFS() throws IOException {
+        conf.addResource(new Path(PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF + "/core-site.xml"));
+        conf.addResource(new Path(PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF + "/mapred-site.xml"));
+        conf.addResource(new Path(PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF + "/hdfs-site.xml"));
+        FileSystem lfs = FileSystem.getLocal(new Configuration());
+        lfs.delete(new Path("build"), true);
+        System.setProperty("hadoop.log.dir", "logs");
+        dfsCluster = new MiniDFSCluster(conf, numberOfNC, true, null);
+        FileSystem dfs = FileSystem.get(conf);
+
+        for (String testDir : TestDir) {
+            File src = new File(testDir);
+            Path dest = new Path(HDFS_INPUTPATH + File.separator + src.getName());
+            dfs.mkdirs(dest);
+            //src.listFiles()
+            //src.listFiles((FilenameFilter)(new WildcardFileFilter("part*")))
+            for (File f : src.listFiles()) {
+                dfs.copyFromLocalFile(new Path(f.getAbsolutePath()), dest);
+            }
+        }
+
+        DataOutputStream confOutput = new DataOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(new File(HADOOP_CONF_PATH)));
+        conf.writeXml(confOutput);
+        confOutput.flush();
+        confOutput.close();
+    }
+
+    private void cleanupStores() throws IOException {
+        FileUtils.forceMkdir(new File("teststore"));
+        FileUtils.forceMkdir(new File("build"));
+        FileUtils.cleanDirectory(new File("teststore"));
+        FileUtils.cleanDirectory(new File("build"));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * cleanup hdfs cluster
+     */
+    private void cleanupHDFS() throws Exception {
+        dfsCluster.shutdown();
+    }
+
+    public void tearDown() throws Exception {
+        PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.deinit();
+        LOGGER.info("Hyracks mini-cluster shut down");
+        cleanupHDFS();
+    }
+
+    public static Test suite() throws Exception {
+        List<String> onlys = getFileList(PATH_TO_ONLY);
+        File testData = new File(PATH_TO_JOBS);
+        File[] queries = testData.listFiles();
+        BridgeRemoveSmallTestSuite testSuite = new BridgeRemoveSmallTestSuite();
+        testSuite.setUp();
+        boolean onlyEnabled = false;
+        FileSystem dfs = FileSystem.get(testSuite.conf);
+
+        if (onlys.size() > 0) {
+            onlyEnabled = true;
+        }
+
+        for (File qFile : queries) {
+            if (qFile.isFile()) {
+                if (onlyEnabled && !isInList(onlys, qFile.getName())) {
+                    continue;
+                } else {
+                    for (String testPathStr : TestDir) {
+                        File testDir = new File(testPathStr);
+                        String resultFileName = ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR + File.separator + jobExtToResExt(qFile.getName())
+                                + File.separator + "bin" + File.separator + testDir.getName();
+                        String textFileName = ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR + File.separator + jobExtToResExt(qFile.getName())
+                                + File.separator + "txt" + File.separator + testDir.getName();
+                        testSuite.addTest(new BasicSmallTestCase(HADOOP_CONF_PATH, qFile.getName(), qFile
+                                .getAbsolutePath().toString(), dfs,
+                                HDFS_INPUTPATH + File.separator + testDir.getName(), resultFileName, textFileName));
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return testSuite;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Runs the tests and collects their result in a TestResult.
+     */
+    @Override
+    public void run(TestResult result) {
+        try {
+            int testCount = countTestCases();
+            for (int i = 0; i < testCount; i++) {
+                // cleanupStores();
+                Test each = this.testAt(i);
+                if (result.shouldStop())
+                    break;
+                runTest(each, result);
+            }
+            tearDown();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    protected static List<String> getFileList(String ignorePath) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
+        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(ignorePath));
+        String s = null;
+        List<String> ignores = new ArrayList<String>();
+        while ((s = reader.readLine()) != null) {
+            ignores.add(s);
+        }
+        reader.close();
+        return ignores;
+    }
+
+    private static String jobExtToResExt(String fname) {
+        int dot = fname.lastIndexOf('.');
+        return fname.substring(0, dot);
+    }
+
+    private static boolean isInList(List<String> onlys, String name) {
+        for (String only : onlys)
+            if (name.indexOf(only) >= 0)
+                return true;
+        return false;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobRun/BubbleMergeSmallTestSuite.java b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobRun/BubbleMergeSmallTestSuite.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9e98cb6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobRun/BubbleMergeSmallTestSuite.java
@@ -0,0 +1,210 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2009-2010 by The Regents of the University of California
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * you may obtain a copy of the License from
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.JobRun;
+
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.DataOutputStream;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+import junit.framework.Test;
+import junit.framework.TestResult;
+import junit.framework.TestSuite;
+
+import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf;
+
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.jobgen.clusterconfig.ClusterConfig;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.util.PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil;
+
+@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
+public class BubbleMergeSmallTestSuite extends TestSuite {
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(BubbleMergeSmallTestSuite.class.getName());
+
+    public static final String PreFix = "data/input"; //"graphbuildresult";
+    public static final String[] TestDir = { PreFix + File.separator
+    + "pathmerge"};/*, PreFix + File.separator
+            /*+ "CyclePath"};, PreFix + File.separator
+            + "SimplePath", PreFix + File.separator
+            + "SinglePath", PreFix + File.separator
+            + "TreePath"};*/
+           /* + "2", PreFix + File.separator + "3", PreFix + File.separator + "4", PreFix + File.separator + "5",
+            PreFix + File.separator + "6", PreFix + File.separator + "7", PreFix + File.separator + "8",
+            PreFix + File.separator + "9", PreFix + File.separator + "TwoKmer", PreFix + File.separator + "ThreeKmer",
+            PreFix + File.separator + "SinglePath", PreFix + File.separator + "SimplePath",
+            PreFix + File.separator + "Path", PreFix + File.separator + "BridgePath",
+            PreFix + File.separator + "CyclePath", PreFix + File.separator + "RingPath",
+            PreFix + File.separator + "LongPath", PreFix + File.separator + "TreePath" };*/
+    private static final String ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR = "actual";
+    private static final String PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF = "src/test/resources/hadoop/conf";
+    private static final String PATH_TO_CLUSTER_STORE = "src/test/resources/cluster/stores.properties";
+    private static final String PATH_TO_CLUSTER_PROPERTIES = "src/test/resources/cluster/cluster.properties";
+    private static final String PATH_TO_JOBS = "src/test/resources/jobs/";
+    private static final String PATH_TO_ONLY = "src/test/resources/only.txt";
+
+    public static final String HDFS_INPUTPATH = "/PathTestSet";
+
+    private static final String HADOOP_CONF_PATH = ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR + File.separator + "conf.xml";
+    private MiniDFSCluster dfsCluster;
+
+    private JobConf conf = new JobConf();
+    private int numberOfNC = 2;
+
+    public void setUp() throws Exception {
+        ClusterConfig.setStorePath(PATH_TO_CLUSTER_STORE);
+        ClusterConfig.setClusterPropertiesPath(PATH_TO_CLUSTER_PROPERTIES);
+        cleanupStores();
+        PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.init("src/test/resources/topology.xml");
+        LOGGER.info("Hyracks mini-cluster started");
+        FileUtils.forceMkdir(new File(ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR));
+        FileUtils.cleanDirectory(new File(ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR));
+        startHDFS();
+    }
+
+    private void startHDFS() throws IOException {
+        conf.addResource(new Path(PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF + "/core-site.xml"));
+        conf.addResource(new Path(PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF + "/mapred-site.xml"));
+        conf.addResource(new Path(PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF + "/hdfs-site.xml"));
+        FileSystem lfs = FileSystem.getLocal(new Configuration());
+        lfs.delete(new Path("build"), true);
+        System.setProperty("hadoop.log.dir", "logs");
+        dfsCluster = new MiniDFSCluster(conf, numberOfNC, true, null);
+        FileSystem dfs = FileSystem.get(conf);
+
+        for (String testDir : TestDir) {
+            File src = new File(testDir);
+            Path dest = new Path(HDFS_INPUTPATH + File.separator + src.getName());
+            dfs.mkdirs(dest);
+            //src.listFiles()
+            //src.listFiles((FilenameFilter)(new WildcardFileFilter("part*")))
+            for (File f : src.listFiles()) {
+                dfs.copyFromLocalFile(new Path(f.getAbsolutePath()), dest);
+            }
+        }
+
+        DataOutputStream confOutput = new DataOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(new File(HADOOP_CONF_PATH)));
+        conf.writeXml(confOutput);
+        confOutput.flush();
+        confOutput.close();
+    }
+
+    private void cleanupStores() throws IOException {
+        FileUtils.forceMkdir(new File("teststore"));
+        FileUtils.forceMkdir(new File("build"));
+        FileUtils.cleanDirectory(new File("teststore"));
+        FileUtils.cleanDirectory(new File("build"));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * cleanup hdfs cluster
+     */
+    private void cleanupHDFS() throws Exception {
+        dfsCluster.shutdown();
+    }
+
+    public void tearDown() throws Exception {
+        PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.deinit();
+        LOGGER.info("Hyracks mini-cluster shut down");
+        cleanupHDFS();
+    }
+
+    public static Test suite() throws Exception {
+        List<String> onlys = getFileList(PATH_TO_ONLY);
+        File testData = new File(PATH_TO_JOBS);
+        File[] queries = testData.listFiles();
+        BubbleMergeSmallTestSuite testSuite = new BubbleMergeSmallTestSuite();
+        testSuite.setUp();
+        boolean onlyEnabled = false;
+        FileSystem dfs = FileSystem.get(testSuite.conf);
+
+        if (onlys.size() > 0) {
+            onlyEnabled = true;
+        }
+
+        for (File qFile : queries) {
+            if (qFile.isFile()) {
+                if (onlyEnabled && !isInList(onlys, qFile.getName())) {
+                    continue;
+                } else {
+                    for (String testPathStr : TestDir) {
+                        File testDir = new File(testPathStr);
+                        String resultFileName = ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR + File.separator + jobExtToResExt(qFile.getName())
+                                + File.separator + "bin" + File.separator + testDir.getName();
+                        String textFileName = ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR + File.separator + jobExtToResExt(qFile.getName())
+                                + File.separator + "txt" + File.separator + testDir.getName();
+                        testSuite.addTest(new BasicSmallTestCase(HADOOP_CONF_PATH, qFile.getName(), qFile
+                                .getAbsolutePath().toString(), dfs,
+                                HDFS_INPUTPATH + File.separator + testDir.getName(), resultFileName, textFileName));
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return testSuite;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Runs the tests and collects their result in a TestResult.
+     */
+    @Override
+    public void run(TestResult result) {
+        try {
+            int testCount = countTestCases();
+            for (int i = 0; i < testCount; i++) {
+                // cleanupStores();
+                Test each = this.testAt(i);
+                if (result.shouldStop())
+                    break;
+                runTest(each, result);
+            }
+            tearDown();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    protected static List<String> getFileList(String ignorePath) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
+        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(ignorePath));
+        String s = null;
+        List<String> ignores = new ArrayList<String>();
+        while ((s = reader.readLine()) != null) {
+            ignores.add(s);
+        }
+        reader.close();
+        return ignores;
+    }
+
+    private static String jobExtToResExt(String fname) {
+        int dot = fname.lastIndexOf('.');
+        return fname.substring(0, dot);
+    }
+
+    private static boolean isInList(List<String> onlys, String name) {
+        for (String only : onlys)
+            if (name.indexOf(only) >= 0)
+                return true;
+        return false;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobRun/PathMergeSmallTestSuite.java b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobRun/PathMergeSmallTestSuite.java
index cd81a97..857e4c3 100644
--- a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobRun/PathMergeSmallTestSuite.java
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobRun/PathMergeSmallTestSuite.java
@@ -43,9 +43,9 @@
 public class PathMergeSmallTestSuite extends TestSuite {
     private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(PathMergeSmallTestSuite.class.getName());
 
-    public static final String PreFix = "data/input"; //"graphbuildresult";
+    public static final String PreFix = "data/actual/tipadd"; //"graphbuildresult";
     public static final String[] TestDir = { PreFix + File.separator
-    + "pathmerge"};/*, PreFix + File.separator
+    + "TipAddGraph/bin/read"};/*, PreFix + File.separator
             /*+ "CyclePath"};, PreFix + File.separator
             + "SimplePath", PreFix + File.separator
             + "SinglePath", PreFix + File.separator
@@ -57,12 +57,12 @@
             PreFix + File.separator + "Path", PreFix + File.separator + "BridgePath",
             PreFix + File.separator + "CyclePath", PreFix + File.separator + "RingPath",
             PreFix + File.separator + "LongPath", PreFix + File.separator + "TreePath" };*/
-    private static final String ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR = "actual";
+    private static final String ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR = "data/actual/pathmerge";
     private static final String PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF = "src/test/resources/hadoop/conf";
     private static final String PATH_TO_CLUSTER_STORE = "src/test/resources/cluster/stores.properties";
     private static final String PATH_TO_CLUSTER_PROPERTIES = "src/test/resources/cluster/cluster.properties";
     private static final String PATH_TO_JOBS = "src/test/resources/jobs/";
-    private static final String PATH_TO_ONLY = "src/test/resources/only.txt";
+    private static final String PATH_TO_ONLY = "src/test/resources/only_pathmerge.txt";
 
     public static final String HDFS_INPUTPATH = "/PathTestSet";
 
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
                                 + File.separator + "bin" + File.separator + testDir.getName();
                         String textFileName = ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR + File.separator + jobExtToResExt(qFile.getName())
                                 + File.separator + "txt" + File.separator + testDir.getName();
-                        testSuite.addTest(new PathMergeSmallTestCase(HADOOP_CONF_PATH, qFile.getName(), qFile
+                        testSuite.addTest(new BasicSmallTestCase(HADOOP_CONF_PATH, qFile.getName(), qFile
                                 .getAbsolutePath().toString(), dfs,
                                 HDFS_INPUTPATH + File.separator + testDir.getName(), resultFileName, textFileName));
                     }
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobRun/TipAddSmallTestSuite.java b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobRun/TipAddSmallTestSuite.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f4456ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobRun/TipAddSmallTestSuite.java
@@ -0,0 +1,210 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2009-2010 by The Regents of the University of California
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * you may obtain a copy of the License from
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.JobRun;
+
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.DataOutputStream;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+import junit.framework.Test;
+import junit.framework.TestResult;
+import junit.framework.TestSuite;
+
+import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf;
+
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.jobgen.clusterconfig.ClusterConfig;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.util.PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil;
+
+@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
+public class TipAddSmallTestSuite extends TestSuite {
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(TipAddSmallTestSuite.class.getName());
+
+    public static final String PreFix = "data/input"; //"graphbuildresult";
+    public static final String[] TestDir = { PreFix + File.separator
+    + "read"};/*, PreFix + File.separator
+            /*+ "CyclePath"};, PreFix + File.separator
+            + "SimplePath", PreFix + File.separator
+            + "SinglePath", PreFix + File.separator
+            + "TreePath"};*/
+           /* + "2", PreFix + File.separator + "3", PreFix + File.separator + "4", PreFix + File.separator + "5",
+            PreFix + File.separator + "6", PreFix + File.separator + "7", PreFix + File.separator + "8",
+            PreFix + File.separator + "9", PreFix + File.separator + "TwoKmer", PreFix + File.separator + "ThreeKmer",
+            PreFix + File.separator + "SinglePath", PreFix + File.separator + "SimplePath",
+            PreFix + File.separator + "Path", PreFix + File.separator + "BridgePath",
+            PreFix + File.separator + "CyclePath", PreFix + File.separator + "RingPath",
+            PreFix + File.separator + "LongPath", PreFix + File.separator + "TreePath" };*/
+    private static final String ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR = "data/actual/tipadd";
+    private static final String PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF = "src/test/resources/hadoop/conf";
+    private static final String PATH_TO_CLUSTER_STORE = "src/test/resources/cluster/stores.properties";
+    private static final String PATH_TO_CLUSTER_PROPERTIES = "src/test/resources/cluster/cluster.properties";
+    private static final String PATH_TO_JOBS = "src/test/resources/jobs/";
+    private static final String PATH_TO_ONLY = "src/test/resources/only_tipadd.txt";
+
+    public static final String HDFS_INPUTPATH = "/PathTestSet";
+
+    private static final String HADOOP_CONF_PATH = ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR + File.separator + "conf.xml";
+    private MiniDFSCluster dfsCluster;
+
+    private JobConf conf = new JobConf();
+    private int numberOfNC = 2;
+
+    public void setUp() throws Exception {
+        ClusterConfig.setStorePath(PATH_TO_CLUSTER_STORE);
+        ClusterConfig.setClusterPropertiesPath(PATH_TO_CLUSTER_PROPERTIES);
+        cleanupStores();
+        PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.init("src/test/resources/topology.xml");
+        LOGGER.info("Hyracks mini-cluster started");
+        FileUtils.forceMkdir(new File(ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR));
+        FileUtils.cleanDirectory(new File(ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR));
+        startHDFS();
+    }
+
+    private void startHDFS() throws IOException {
+        conf.addResource(new Path(PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF + "/core-site.xml"));
+        conf.addResource(new Path(PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF + "/mapred-site.xml"));
+        conf.addResource(new Path(PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF + "/hdfs-site.xml"));
+        FileSystem lfs = FileSystem.getLocal(new Configuration());
+        lfs.delete(new Path("build"), true);
+        System.setProperty("hadoop.log.dir", "logs");
+        dfsCluster = new MiniDFSCluster(conf, numberOfNC, true, null);
+        FileSystem dfs = FileSystem.get(conf);
+
+        for (String testDir : TestDir) {
+            File src = new File(testDir);
+            Path dest = new Path(HDFS_INPUTPATH + File.separator + src.getName());
+            dfs.mkdirs(dest);
+            //src.listFiles()
+            //src.listFiles((FilenameFilter)(new WildcardFileFilter("part*")))
+            for (File f : src.listFiles()) {
+                dfs.copyFromLocalFile(new Path(f.getAbsolutePath()), dest);
+            }
+        }
+
+        DataOutputStream confOutput = new DataOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(new File(HADOOP_CONF_PATH)));
+        conf.writeXml(confOutput);
+        confOutput.flush();
+        confOutput.close();
+    }
+
+    private void cleanupStores() throws IOException {
+        FileUtils.forceMkdir(new File("teststore"));
+        FileUtils.forceMkdir(new File("build"));
+        FileUtils.cleanDirectory(new File("teststore"));
+        FileUtils.cleanDirectory(new File("build"));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * cleanup hdfs cluster
+     */
+    private void cleanupHDFS() throws Exception {
+        dfsCluster.shutdown();
+    }
+
+    public void tearDown() throws Exception {
+        PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.deinit();
+        LOGGER.info("Hyracks mini-cluster shut down");
+        cleanupHDFS();
+    }
+
+    public static Test suite() throws Exception {
+        List<String> onlys = getFileList(PATH_TO_ONLY);
+        File testData = new File(PATH_TO_JOBS);
+        File[] queries = testData.listFiles();
+        TipAddSmallTestSuite testSuite = new TipAddSmallTestSuite();
+        testSuite.setUp();
+        boolean onlyEnabled = false;
+        FileSystem dfs = FileSystem.get(testSuite.conf);
+
+        if (onlys.size() > 0) {
+            onlyEnabled = true;
+        }
+
+        for (File qFile : queries) {
+            if (qFile.isFile()) {
+                if (onlyEnabled && !isInList(onlys, qFile.getName())) {
+                    continue;
+                } else {
+                    for (String testPathStr : TestDir) {
+                        File testDir = new File(testPathStr);
+                        String resultFileName = ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR + File.separator + jobExtToResExt(qFile.getName())
+                                + File.separator + "bin" + File.separator + testDir.getName();
+                        String textFileName = ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR + File.separator + jobExtToResExt(qFile.getName())
+                                + File.separator + "txt" + File.separator + testDir.getName();
+                        testSuite.addTest(new BasicSmallTestCase(HADOOP_CONF_PATH, qFile.getName(), qFile
+                                .getAbsolutePath().toString(), dfs,
+                                HDFS_INPUTPATH + File.separator + testDir.getName(), resultFileName, textFileName));
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return testSuite;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Runs the tests and collects their result in a TestResult.
+     */
+    @Override
+    public void run(TestResult result) {
+        try {
+            int testCount = countTestCases();
+            for (int i = 0; i < testCount; i++) {
+                // cleanupStores();
+                Test each = this.testAt(i);
+                if (result.shouldStop())
+                    break;
+                runTest(each, result);
+            }
+            tearDown();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    protected static List<String> getFileList(String ignorePath) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
+        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(ignorePath));
+        String s = null;
+        List<String> ignores = new ArrayList<String>();
+        while ((s = reader.readLine()) != null) {
+            ignores.add(s);
+        }
+        reader.close();
+        return ignores;
+    }
+
+    private static String jobExtToResExt(String fname) {
+        int dot = fname.lastIndexOf('.');
+        return fname.substring(0, dot);
+    }
+
+    private static boolean isInList(List<String> onlys, String name) {
+        for (String only : onlys)
+            if (name.indexOf(only) >= 0)
+                return true;
+        return false;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobRun/TipRemoveSmallTestSuite.java b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobRun/TipRemoveSmallTestSuite.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5ccfca5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/genomix/pregelix/JobRun/TipRemoveSmallTestSuite.java
@@ -0,0 +1,210 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2009-2010 by The Regents of the University of California
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * you may obtain a copy of the License from
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.JobRun;
+
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.DataOutputStream;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+import junit.framework.Test;
+import junit.framework.TestResult;
+import junit.framework.TestSuite;
+
+import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf;
+
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.jobgen.clusterconfig.ClusterConfig;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.util.PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil;
+
+@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
+public class TipRemoveSmallTestSuite extends TestSuite {
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(TipRemoveSmallTestSuite.class.getName());
+
+    public static final String PreFix = "data/actual/tipadd"; //"graphbuildresult";
+    public static final String[] TestDir = { PreFix + File.separator
+    + "TipAddGraph/bin/read"};/*, PreFix + File.separator
+            /*+ "CyclePath"};, PreFix + File.separator
+            + "SimplePath", PreFix + File.separator
+            + "SinglePath", PreFix + File.separator
+            + "TreePath"};*/
+           /* + "2", PreFix + File.separator + "3", PreFix + File.separator + "4", PreFix + File.separator + "5",
+            PreFix + File.separator + "6", PreFix + File.separator + "7", PreFix + File.separator + "8",
+            PreFix + File.separator + "9", PreFix + File.separator + "TwoKmer", PreFix + File.separator + "ThreeKmer",
+            PreFix + File.separator + "SinglePath", PreFix + File.separator + "SimplePath",
+            PreFix + File.separator + "Path", PreFix + File.separator + "BridgePath",
+            PreFix + File.separator + "CyclePath", PreFix + File.separator + "RingPath",
+            PreFix + File.separator + "LongPath", PreFix + File.separator + "TreePath" };*/
+    private static final String ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR = "data/actual/tipremove";
+    private static final String PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF = "src/test/resources/hadoop/conf";
+    private static final String PATH_TO_CLUSTER_STORE = "src/test/resources/cluster/stores.properties";
+    private static final String PATH_TO_CLUSTER_PROPERTIES = "src/test/resources/cluster/cluster.properties";
+    private static final String PATH_TO_JOBS = "src/test/resources/jobs/";
+    private static final String PATH_TO_ONLY = "src/test/resources/only_tipremove.txt";
+
+    public static final String HDFS_INPUTPATH = "/PathTestSet";
+
+    private static final String HADOOP_CONF_PATH = ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR + File.separator + "conf.xml";
+    private MiniDFSCluster dfsCluster;
+
+    private JobConf conf = new JobConf();
+    private int numberOfNC = 2;
+
+    public void setUp() throws Exception {
+        ClusterConfig.setStorePath(PATH_TO_CLUSTER_STORE);
+        ClusterConfig.setClusterPropertiesPath(PATH_TO_CLUSTER_PROPERTIES);
+        cleanupStores();
+        PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.init("src/test/resources/topology.xml");
+        LOGGER.info("Hyracks mini-cluster started");
+        FileUtils.forceMkdir(new File(ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR));
+        FileUtils.cleanDirectory(new File(ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR));
+        startHDFS();
+    }
+
+    private void startHDFS() throws IOException {
+        conf.addResource(new Path(PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF + "/core-site.xml"));
+        conf.addResource(new Path(PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF + "/mapred-site.xml"));
+        conf.addResource(new Path(PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF + "/hdfs-site.xml"));
+        FileSystem lfs = FileSystem.getLocal(new Configuration());
+        lfs.delete(new Path("build"), true);
+        System.setProperty("hadoop.log.dir", "logs");
+        dfsCluster = new MiniDFSCluster(conf, numberOfNC, true, null);
+        FileSystem dfs = FileSystem.get(conf);
+
+        for (String testDir : TestDir) {
+            File src = new File(testDir);
+            Path dest = new Path(HDFS_INPUTPATH + File.separator + src.getName());
+            dfs.mkdirs(dest);
+            //src.listFiles()
+            //src.listFiles((FilenameFilter)(new WildcardFileFilter("part*")))
+            for (File f : src.listFiles()) {
+                dfs.copyFromLocalFile(new Path(f.getAbsolutePath()), dest);
+            }
+        }
+
+        DataOutputStream confOutput = new DataOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(new File(HADOOP_CONF_PATH)));
+        conf.writeXml(confOutput);
+        confOutput.flush();
+        confOutput.close();
+    }
+
+    private void cleanupStores() throws IOException {
+        FileUtils.forceMkdir(new File("teststore"));
+        FileUtils.forceMkdir(new File("build"));
+        FileUtils.cleanDirectory(new File("teststore"));
+        FileUtils.cleanDirectory(new File("build"));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * cleanup hdfs cluster
+     */
+    private void cleanupHDFS() throws Exception {
+        dfsCluster.shutdown();
+    }
+
+    public void tearDown() throws Exception {
+        PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.deinit();
+        LOGGER.info("Hyracks mini-cluster shut down");
+        cleanupHDFS();
+    }
+
+    public static Test suite() throws Exception {
+        List<String> onlys = getFileList(PATH_TO_ONLY);
+        File testData = new File(PATH_TO_JOBS);
+        File[] queries = testData.listFiles();
+        TipRemoveSmallTestSuite testSuite = new TipRemoveSmallTestSuite();
+        testSuite.setUp();
+        boolean onlyEnabled = false;
+        FileSystem dfs = FileSystem.get(testSuite.conf);
+
+        if (onlys.size() > 0) {
+            onlyEnabled = true;
+        }
+
+        for (File qFile : queries) {
+            if (qFile.isFile()) {
+                if (onlyEnabled && !isInList(onlys, qFile.getName())) {
+                    continue;
+                } else {
+                    for (String testPathStr : TestDir) {
+                        File testDir = new File(testPathStr);
+                        String resultFileName = ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR + File.separator + jobExtToResExt(qFile.getName())
+                                + File.separator + "bin" + File.separator + testDir.getName();
+                        String textFileName = ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR + File.separator + jobExtToResExt(qFile.getName())
+                                + File.separator + "txt" + File.separator + testDir.getName();
+                        testSuite.addTest(new BasicSmallTestCase(HADOOP_CONF_PATH, qFile.getName(), qFile
+                                .getAbsolutePath().toString(), dfs,
+                                HDFS_INPUTPATH + File.separator + testDir.getName(), resultFileName, textFileName));
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return testSuite;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Runs the tests and collects their result in a TestResult.
+     */
+    @Override
+    public void run(TestResult result) {
+        try {
+            int testCount = countTestCases();
+            for (int i = 0; i < testCount; i++) {
+                // cleanupStores();
+                Test each = this.testAt(i);
+                if (result.shouldStop())
+                    break;
+                runTest(each, result);
+            }
+            tearDown();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    protected static List<String> getFileList(String ignorePath) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
+        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(ignorePath));
+        String s = null;
+        List<String> ignores = new ArrayList<String>();
+        while ((s = reader.readLine()) != null) {
+            ignores.add(s);
+        }
+        reader.close();
+        return ignores;
+    }
+
+    private static String jobExtToResExt(String fname) {
+        int dot = fname.lastIndexOf('.');
+        return fname.substring(0, dot);
+    }
+
+    private static boolean isInList(List<String> onlys, String name) {
+        for (String only : onlys)
+            if (name.indexOf(only) >= 0)
+                return true;
+        return false;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/jobs/BridgeAddGraph.xml b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/jobs/BridgeAddGraph.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4739d59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/jobs/BridgeAddGraph.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><configuration>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.nameserver</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-administer-jobs</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hsftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HsftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.submit.replication</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/namesecondary</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.type</name><value>RECORD</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.merge.percent</name><value>0.66</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.java.opts</name><value>-Xmx200m</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-submit-job</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>keep.failed.task.files</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.job.history.block.size</name><value>3145728</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.value.class</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.io.VertexValueWritable</value></property>
+<property><name>io.bytes.per.checksum</name><value>512</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.report.address</name><value>127.0.0.1:0</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.util.hash.type</name><value>murmur</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hdfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.ramfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.InMemoryFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.restart.recover</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>BridgeRemoveVertex.kmerSize</name><value>3</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.period</name><value>3600</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.tmp</name><value>./tmp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacekill</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>map.sort.class</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.util.QuickSort</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connection.maxidletime</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>io.map.index.skip</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.expiry.interval</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compress</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.lazydecompress</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.parallel.copies</name><value>5</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reduce.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.name</name><value>BridgeAddGraph</value></property>
+<property><name>local.cache.size</name><value>10737418240</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3n.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3native.NativeS3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.limit.kb</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.file.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50060</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.timeout</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.kfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.kfs.KosmosFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.blacklists</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.buffer.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/s3</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.dir</name><value>/jobtracker/jobsInfo</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.kill.max</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.record.percent</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.security.authorization</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.failures</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.taskScheduler</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobQueueTaskScheduler</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.interface</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.hours</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.sleepTimeSeconds</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.default.name</name><value>file:///</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.key.class</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.type.PositionWritable</value></property>
+<property><name>tasktracker.http.threads</name><value>40</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.taskmemorymanager.monitoring-interval</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.rpc.socket.factory.class.default</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.StandardSocketFactory</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.node.switch.mapping.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.ScriptBasedMapping</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.operator.bridgeremove.BridgeAddVertex</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.max.skip.groups</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>io.file.buffer.size</name><value>4096</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.maxtasks.per.job</name><value>-1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.indexcache.mb</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl.disable.cache</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.maps</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.native.lib</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.block.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reuse.jvm.num.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50030</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>io.compression.codecs</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.BZip2Codec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.70</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.compress.blocksize</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.names</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.HarFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.error.rate</name><value>0.005</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker</name><value>local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.skip.checksum.errors</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.maxRetries</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.listen.queue.size</name><value>128</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.trash.interval</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacestart</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3.S3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.sorter.recordlimit</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.size</name><value>1048576</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.mb</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.factor</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.interval</name><value>30000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.procfsbasedprocesstree.sleeptime-before-sigkill</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.completeuserjobs.maximum</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.reduces</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>webinterface.private.actions</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.tmp.dir</name><value>/tmp/hadoop-${user.name}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.attempts.to.start.skipping</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.temp.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/temp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.merge.recordsBeforeProgress</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.compress.map.output</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.spill.percent</name><value>0.80</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.edits.dir</name><value>${fs.checkpoint.dir}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.retain.hours</name><value>24</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.system.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/system</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.line.input.format.linespermap</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.attempts</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.idlethreshold</name><value>4000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexOutputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.format.DataCleanOutputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.copy.backoff</name><value>300</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.inmem.merge.threshold</name><value>1000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.size</name><value>10000000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexInputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.format.NaiveAlgorithmForPathMergeInputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.queue.name</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.active</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.incStateLength</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.slowstart.completed.maps</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.script.number.args</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.max.skip.records</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.ftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.ftp.FTPFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.cache.levels</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.handler.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>io.serializations</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.WritableSerialization</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connect.max.retries</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.min.split.size</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>jobclient.output.filter</name><value>FAILED</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.acls.enabled</name><value>false</value></property>
+</configuration>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/jobs/BridgeRemoveGraph.xml b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/jobs/BridgeRemoveGraph.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b36258a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/jobs/BridgeRemoveGraph.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><configuration>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.nameserver</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-administer-jobs</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hsftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HsftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.submit.replication</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/namesecondary</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.type</name><value>RECORD</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.merge.percent</name><value>0.66</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.java.opts</name><value>-Xmx200m</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-submit-job</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>keep.failed.task.files</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.job.history.block.size</name><value>3145728</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.value.class</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.io.VertexValueWritable</value></property>
+<property><name>io.bytes.per.checksum</name><value>512</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.report.address</name><value>127.0.0.1:0</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.util.hash.type</name><value>murmur</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hdfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem</value></property>
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+<property><name>fs.hftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.period</name><value>3600</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.tmp</name><value>./tmp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacekill</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>map.sort.class</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.util.QuickSort</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connection.maxidletime</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>io.map.index.skip</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.expiry.interval</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compress</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.lazydecompress</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.parallel.copies</name><value>5</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reduce.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.name</name><value>BridgeRemoveGraph</value></property>
+<property><name>local.cache.size</name><value>10737418240</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3n.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3native.NativeS3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.limit.kb</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.file.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50060</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.timeout</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.kfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.kfs.KosmosFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.blacklists</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.buffer.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/s3</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.dir</name><value>/jobtracker/jobsInfo</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.kill.max</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.record.percent</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.security.authorization</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.failures</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.taskScheduler</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobQueueTaskScheduler</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.interface</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.hours</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.sleepTimeSeconds</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.default.name</name><value>file:///</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.key.class</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.type.PositionWritable</value></property>
+<property><name>tasktracker.http.threads</name><value>40</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.taskmemorymanager.monitoring-interval</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.rpc.socket.factory.class.default</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.StandardSocketFactory</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.node.switch.mapping.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.ScriptBasedMapping</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.operator.bridgeremove.BridgeRemoveVertex</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.max.skip.groups</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>io.file.buffer.size</name><value>4096</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.maxtasks.per.job</name><value>-1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.indexcache.mb</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl.disable.cache</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.maps</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.native.lib</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.block.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reuse.jvm.num.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50030</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>io.compression.codecs</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.BZip2Codec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.70</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.compress.blocksize</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.names</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.HarFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.error.rate</name><value>0.005</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker</name><value>local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.skip.checksum.errors</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.maxRetries</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.listen.queue.size</name><value>128</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.trash.interval</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacestart</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3.S3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.sorter.recordlimit</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.size</name><value>1048576</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.mb</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.factor</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>BasicPathMergeVertex.kmerSize</name><value>3</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.interval</name><value>30000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.procfsbasedprocesstree.sleeptime-before-sigkill</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.completeuserjobs.maximum</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.reduces</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>webinterface.private.actions</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.tmp.dir</name><value>/tmp/hadoop-${user.name}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.attempts.to.start.skipping</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.temp.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/temp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.merge.recordsBeforeProgress</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.compress.map.output</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.spill.percent</name><value>0.80</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.edits.dir</name><value>${fs.checkpoint.dir}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.retain.hours</name><value>24</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.system.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/system</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.line.input.format.linespermap</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.attempts</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.idlethreshold</name><value>4000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexOutputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.format.DataCleanOutputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.copy.backoff</name><value>300</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.inmem.merge.threshold</name><value>1000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.size</name><value>10000000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexInputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.format.DataCleanInputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.queue.name</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.active</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.incStateLength</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.slowstart.completed.maps</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.script.number.args</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.max.skip.records</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.ftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.ftp.FTPFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.cache.levels</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.handler.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>io.serializations</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.WritableSerialization</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connect.max.retries</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.min.split.size</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>jobclient.output.filter</name><value>FAILED</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.acls.enabled</name><value>false</value></property>
+</configuration>
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diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/jobs/BubbleAddGraph.xml b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/jobs/BubbleAddGraph.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..452834a
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+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/jobs/BubbleAddGraph.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><configuration>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.nameserver</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-administer-jobs</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hsftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HsftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.submit.replication</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/namesecondary</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.type</name><value>RECORD</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.merge.percent</name><value>0.66</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.java.opts</name><value>-Xmx200m</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-submit-job</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>keep.failed.task.files</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.job.history.block.size</name><value>3145728</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.value.class</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.io.VertexValueWritable</value></property>
+<property><name>io.bytes.per.checksum</name><value>512</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.report.address</name><value>127.0.0.1:0</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.util.hash.type</name><value>murmur</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hdfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.ramfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.InMemoryFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.restart.recover</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.period</name><value>3600</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.tmp</name><value>./tmp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacekill</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>map.sort.class</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.util.QuickSort</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connection.maxidletime</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>io.map.index.skip</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.expiry.interval</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compress</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.lazydecompress</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.parallel.copies</name><value>5</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reduce.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.name</name><value>BubbleAddGraph</value></property>
+<property><name>local.cache.size</name><value>10737418240</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3n.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3native.NativeS3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.limit.kb</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.file.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50060</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.timeout</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.kfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.kfs.KosmosFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.blacklists</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.buffer.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/s3</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.dir</name><value>/jobtracker/jobsInfo</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.kill.max</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.record.percent</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.security.authorization</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.failures</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.taskScheduler</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobQueueTaskScheduler</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.interface</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.hours</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.sleepTimeSeconds</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.default.name</name><value>file:///</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.key.class</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.type.PositionWritable</value></property>
+<property><name>tasktracker.http.threads</name><value>40</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.taskmemorymanager.monitoring-interval</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.rpc.socket.factory.class.default</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.StandardSocketFactory</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.node.switch.mapping.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.ScriptBasedMapping</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.operator.bubblemerge.BubbleAddVertex</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.max.skip.groups</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>io.file.buffer.size</name><value>4096</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.maxtasks.per.job</name><value>-1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.indexcache.mb</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl.disable.cache</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.maps</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.native.lib</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.block.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reuse.jvm.num.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50030</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>io.compression.codecs</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.BZip2Codec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.70</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.compress.blocksize</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.names</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.HarFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.error.rate</name><value>0.005</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker</name><value>local</value></property>
+<property><name>BubbleAddVertex.kmerSize</name><value>3</value></property>
+<property><name>io.skip.checksum.errors</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.maxRetries</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.listen.queue.size</name><value>128</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.trash.interval</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacestart</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3.S3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.sorter.recordlimit</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.size</name><value>1048576</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.mb</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.factor</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.interval</name><value>30000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.procfsbasedprocesstree.sleeptime-before-sigkill</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.completeuserjobs.maximum</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.reduces</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>webinterface.private.actions</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.tmp.dir</name><value>/tmp/hadoop-${user.name}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.attempts.to.start.skipping</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.temp.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/temp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.merge.recordsBeforeProgress</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.compress.map.output</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.spill.percent</name><value>0.80</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.edits.dir</name><value>${fs.checkpoint.dir}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.retain.hours</name><value>24</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.system.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/system</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.line.input.format.linespermap</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.attempts</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.idlethreshold</name><value>4000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexOutputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.format.DataCleanOutputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.copy.backoff</name><value>300</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.inmem.merge.threshold</name><value>1000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.size</name><value>10000000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexInputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.format.NaiveAlgorithmForPathMergeInputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.queue.name</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.active</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.incStateLength</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.slowstart.completed.maps</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.script.number.args</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.max.skip.records</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.ftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.ftp.FTPFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.cache.levels</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.handler.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>io.serializations</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.WritableSerialization</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connect.max.retries</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.min.split.size</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>jobclient.output.filter</name><value>FAILED</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.acls.enabled</name><value>false</value></property>
+</configuration>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/jobs/BubbleMergeGraph.xml b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/jobs/BubbleMergeGraph.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1b5cf0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/jobs/BubbleMergeGraph.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><configuration>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.nameserver</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-administer-jobs</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hsftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HsftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.submit.replication</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/namesecondary</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.type</name><value>RECORD</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.merge.percent</name><value>0.66</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.java.opts</name><value>-Xmx200m</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-submit-job</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>keep.failed.task.files</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.job.history.block.size</name><value>3145728</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.value.class</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.io.VertexValueWritable</value></property>
+<property><name>io.bytes.per.checksum</name><value>512</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.report.address</name><value>127.0.0.1:0</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.util.hash.type</name><value>murmur</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hdfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.ramfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.InMemoryFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.restart.recover</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.period</name><value>3600</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.tmp</name><value>./tmp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacekill</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>map.sort.class</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.util.QuickSort</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connection.maxidletime</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>io.map.index.skip</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.expiry.interval</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compress</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.lazydecompress</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.parallel.copies</name><value>5</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reduce.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.name</name><value>BubbleMergeGraph</value></property>
+<property><name>local.cache.size</name><value>10737418240</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3n.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3native.NativeS3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.limit.kb</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.file.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50060</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.timeout</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.kfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.kfs.KosmosFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.blacklists</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.buffer.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/s3</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.dir</name><value>/jobtracker/jobsInfo</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.kill.max</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.record.percent</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.security.authorization</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.failures</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.taskScheduler</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobQueueTaskScheduler</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.interface</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.hours</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.sleepTimeSeconds</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.default.name</name><value>file:///</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.key.class</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.type.PositionWritable</value></property>
+<property><name>tasktracker.http.threads</name><value>40</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.taskmemorymanager.monitoring-interval</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.rpc.socket.factory.class.default</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.StandardSocketFactory</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.node.switch.mapping.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.ScriptBasedMapping</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.operator.bubblemerge.BubbleMergeVertex</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.max.skip.groups</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>io.file.buffer.size</name><value>4096</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.maxtasks.per.job</name><value>-1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.indexcache.mb</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl.disable.cache</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.maps</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.native.lib</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.block.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reuse.jvm.num.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50030</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>io.compression.codecs</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.BZip2Codec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.70</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.compress.blocksize</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.names</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.HarFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.error.rate</name><value>0.005</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker</name><value>local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.skip.checksum.errors</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.maxRetries</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.listen.queue.size</name><value>128</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.trash.interval</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacestart</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3.S3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.sorter.recordlimit</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.size</name><value>1048576</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.mb</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.factor</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.interval</name><value>30000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.procfsbasedprocesstree.sleeptime-before-sigkill</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>BubbleMergeVertex.kmerSize</name><value>3</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.completeuserjobs.maximum</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.reduces</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>webinterface.private.actions</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.tmp.dir</name><value>/tmp/hadoop-${user.name}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.attempts.to.start.skipping</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.temp.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/temp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.merge.recordsBeforeProgress</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.compress.map.output</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.spill.percent</name><value>0.80</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.edits.dir</name><value>${fs.checkpoint.dir}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.retain.hours</name><value>24</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.system.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/system</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.line.input.format.linespermap</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.attempts</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.idlethreshold</name><value>4000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexOutputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.format.DataCleanOutputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.copy.backoff</name><value>300</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.inmem.merge.threshold</name><value>1000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.size</name><value>10000000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexInputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.format.DataCleanInputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.queue.name</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.active</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.incStateLength</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.slowstart.completed.maps</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.script.number.args</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.max.skip.records</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.ftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.ftp.FTPFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.cache.levels</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.handler.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>io.serializations</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.WritableSerialization</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connect.max.retries</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.min.split.size</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>jobclient.output.filter</name><value>FAILED</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.acls.enabled</name><value>false</value></property>
+</configuration>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/jobs/P4ForMergeGraph.xml b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/jobs/P4ForMergeGraph.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ed5773c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/jobs/P4ForMergeGraph.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><configuration>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.nameserver</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-administer-jobs</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hsftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HsftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.submit.replication</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/namesecondary</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.type</name><value>RECORD</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.merge.percent</name><value>0.66</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.java.opts</name><value>-Xmx200m</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-submit-job</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>keep.failed.task.files</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.job.history.block.size</name><value>3145728</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.value.class</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.io.VertexValueWritable</value></property>
+<property><name>io.bytes.per.checksum</name><value>512</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.report.address</name><value>127.0.0.1:0</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.util.hash.type</name><value>murmur</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hdfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.ramfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.InMemoryFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.restart.recover</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.period</name><value>3600</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.tmp</name><value>./tmp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacekill</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>map.sort.class</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.util.QuickSort</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connection.maxidletime</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>io.map.index.skip</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.expiry.interval</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compress</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.lazydecompress</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.parallel.copies</name><value>5</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reduce.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.name</name><value>P4ForMergeGraph</value></property>
+<property><name>local.cache.size</name><value>10737418240</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3n.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3native.NativeS3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.limit.kb</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.file.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50060</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.timeout</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.kfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.kfs.KosmosFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.blacklists</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.buffer.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/s3</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.dir</name><value>/jobtracker/jobsInfo</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.kill.max</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.record.percent</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.security.authorization</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.failures</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.taskScheduler</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobQueueTaskScheduler</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.interface</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.hours</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.sleepTimeSeconds</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.default.name</name><value>file:///</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.key.class</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.type.PositionWritable</value></property>
+<property><name>tasktracker.http.threads</name><value>40</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.taskmemorymanager.monitoring-interval</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.rpc.socket.factory.class.default</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.StandardSocketFactory</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.node.switch.mapping.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.ScriptBasedMapping</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.operator.pathmerge.P4ForPathMergeVertex</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.max.skip.groups</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>io.file.buffer.size</name><value>4096</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.maxtasks.per.job</name><value>-1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.indexcache.mb</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl.disable.cache</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.maps</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.native.lib</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.block.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reuse.jvm.num.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50030</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>io.compression.codecs</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.BZip2Codec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.70</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.compress.blocksize</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.names</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.HarFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.error.rate</name><value>0.005</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker</name><value>local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.skip.checksum.errors</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.maxRetries</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.listen.queue.size</name><value>128</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.trash.interval</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacestart</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3.S3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.sorter.recordlimit</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.size</name><value>1048576</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.mb</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.factor</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>BasicPathMergeVertex.kmerSize</name><value>3</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.interval</name><value>30000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.procfsbasedprocesstree.sleeptime-before-sigkill</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.completeuserjobs.maximum</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.reduces</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>webinterface.private.actions</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.tmp.dir</name><value>/tmp/hadoop-${user.name}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.attempts.to.start.skipping</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.temp.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/temp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.merge.recordsBeforeProgress</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.compress.map.output</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.spill.percent</name><value>0.80</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.edits.dir</name><value>${fs.checkpoint.dir}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.retain.hours</name><value>24</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.system.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/system</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.line.input.format.linespermap</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.attempts</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.idlethreshold</name><value>4000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexOutputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.format.DataCleanOutputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.copy.backoff</name><value>300</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.inmem.merge.threshold</name><value>1000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.size</name><value>10000000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexInputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.format.DataCleanInputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.queue.name</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.active</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.incStateLength</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.slowstart.completed.maps</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.script.number.args</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.max.skip.records</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.ftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.ftp.FTPFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.cache.levels</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.handler.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>io.serializations</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.WritableSerialization</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connect.max.retries</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.min.split.size</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>jobclient.output.filter</name><value>FAILED</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.acls.enabled</name><value>false</value></property>
+</configuration>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/jobs/TipAddGraph.xml b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/jobs/TipAddGraph.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..00c857e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/jobs/TipAddGraph.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><configuration>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.nameserver</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-administer-jobs</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hsftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HsftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.submit.replication</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/namesecondary</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.type</name><value>RECORD</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.merge.percent</name><value>0.66</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.java.opts</name><value>-Xmx200m</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-submit-job</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>keep.failed.task.files</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.job.history.block.size</name><value>3145728</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.value.class</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.io.VertexValueWritable</value></property>
+<property><name>io.bytes.per.checksum</name><value>512</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.report.address</name><value>127.0.0.1:0</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.util.hash.type</name><value>murmur</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hdfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.ramfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.InMemoryFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.restart.recover</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.period</name><value>3600</value></property>
+<property><name>TipAddVertex.kmerSize</name><value>3</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.tmp</name><value>./tmp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacekill</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>map.sort.class</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.util.QuickSort</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connection.maxidletime</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>io.map.index.skip</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.expiry.interval</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compress</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.lazydecompress</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.parallel.copies</name><value>5</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reduce.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.name</name><value>TipAddGraph</value></property>
+<property><name>local.cache.size</name><value>10737418240</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3n.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3native.NativeS3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.limit.kb</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.file.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50060</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.timeout</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.kfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.kfs.KosmosFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.blacklists</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.buffer.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/s3</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.dir</name><value>/jobtracker/jobsInfo</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.kill.max</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.record.percent</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.security.authorization</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.failures</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.taskScheduler</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobQueueTaskScheduler</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.interface</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.hours</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.sleepTimeSeconds</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.default.name</name><value>file:///</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.key.class</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.type.PositionWritable</value></property>
+<property><name>tasktracker.http.threads</name><value>40</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.taskmemorymanager.monitoring-interval</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.rpc.socket.factory.class.default</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.StandardSocketFactory</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.node.switch.mapping.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.ScriptBasedMapping</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.operator.tipremove.TipAddVertex</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.max.skip.groups</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>io.file.buffer.size</name><value>4096</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.maxtasks.per.job</name><value>-1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.indexcache.mb</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl.disable.cache</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.maps</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.native.lib</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.block.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reuse.jvm.num.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50030</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>io.compression.codecs</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.BZip2Codec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.70</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.compress.blocksize</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.names</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.HarFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.error.rate</name><value>0.005</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker</name><value>local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.skip.checksum.errors</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.maxRetries</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.listen.queue.size</name><value>128</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.trash.interval</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacestart</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3.S3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.sorter.recordlimit</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.size</name><value>1048576</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.mb</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.factor</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.interval</name><value>30000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.procfsbasedprocesstree.sleeptime-before-sigkill</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.completeuserjobs.maximum</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.reduces</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>webinterface.private.actions</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.tmp.dir</name><value>/tmp/hadoop-${user.name}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.attempts.to.start.skipping</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.temp.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/temp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.merge.recordsBeforeProgress</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.compress.map.output</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.spill.percent</name><value>0.80</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.edits.dir</name><value>${fs.checkpoint.dir}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.retain.hours</name><value>24</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.system.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/system</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.line.input.format.linespermap</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.attempts</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.idlethreshold</name><value>4000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexOutputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.format.DataCleanOutputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.copy.backoff</name><value>300</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.inmem.merge.threshold</name><value>1000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.size</name><value>10000000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexInputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.format.NaiveAlgorithmForPathMergeInputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.queue.name</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.active</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.incStateLength</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.slowstart.completed.maps</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.script.number.args</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.max.skip.records</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.ftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.ftp.FTPFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.cache.levels</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.handler.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>io.serializations</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.WritableSerialization</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connect.max.retries</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.min.split.size</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>jobclient.output.filter</name><value>FAILED</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.acls.enabled</name><value>false</value></property>
+</configuration>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/jobs/TipRemoveGraph.xml b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/jobs/TipRemoveGraph.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1fcacc9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/jobs/TipRemoveGraph.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><configuration>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.nameserver</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-administer-jobs</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hsftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HsftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.submit.replication</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/namesecondary</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.type</name><value>RECORD</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.merge.percent</name><value>0.66</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.java.opts</name><value>-Xmx200m</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-submit-job</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>keep.failed.task.files</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.job.history.block.size</name><value>3145728</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.value.class</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.io.VertexValueWritable</value></property>
+<property><name>io.bytes.per.checksum</name><value>512</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.report.address</name><value>127.0.0.1:0</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.util.hash.type</name><value>murmur</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hdfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.ramfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.InMemoryFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.restart.recover</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.period</name><value>3600</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.tmp</name><value>./tmp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacekill</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>map.sort.class</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.util.QuickSort</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connection.maxidletime</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>io.map.index.skip</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.expiry.interval</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compress</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.lazydecompress</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.parallel.copies</name><value>5</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reduce.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.name</name><value>TipRemoveGraph</value></property>
+<property><name>local.cache.size</name><value>10737418240</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3n.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3native.NativeS3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.limit.kb</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.file.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50060</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.timeout</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.kfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.kfs.KosmosFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.blacklists</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.buffer.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/s3</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.dir</name><value>/jobtracker/jobsInfo</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.kill.max</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.record.percent</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.security.authorization</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.failures</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.taskScheduler</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobQueueTaskScheduler</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.interface</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.hours</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.sleepTimeSeconds</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.default.name</name><value>file:///</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.key.class</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.type.PositionWritable</value></property>
+<property><name>tasktracker.http.threads</name><value>40</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.taskmemorymanager.monitoring-interval</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.rpc.socket.factory.class.default</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.StandardSocketFactory</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.node.switch.mapping.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.ScriptBasedMapping</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.operator.tipremove.TipRemoveVertex</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.max.skip.groups</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>io.file.buffer.size</name><value>4096</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.maxtasks.per.job</name><value>-1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.indexcache.mb</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl.disable.cache</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.maps</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.native.lib</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.block.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reuse.jvm.num.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50030</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>io.compression.codecs</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.BZip2Codec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.70</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.compress.blocksize</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.names</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.HarFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.error.rate</name><value>0.005</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker</name><value>local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.skip.checksum.errors</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.maxRetries</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.listen.queue.size</name><value>128</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.trash.interval</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacestart</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3.S3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.sorter.recordlimit</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.size</name><value>1048576</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.mb</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.factor</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>BasicPathMergeVertex.kmerSize</name><value>3</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.interval</name><value>30000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.procfsbasedprocesstree.sleeptime-before-sigkill</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.completeuserjobs.maximum</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.reduces</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>webinterface.private.actions</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.tmp.dir</name><value>/tmp/hadoop-${user.name}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.attempts.to.start.skipping</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.temp.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/temp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.merge.recordsBeforeProgress</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.compress.map.output</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.spill.percent</name><value>0.80</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.edits.dir</name><value>${fs.checkpoint.dir}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.retain.hours</name><value>24</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.system.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/system</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.line.input.format.linespermap</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.attempts</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.idlethreshold</name><value>4000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexOutputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.format.DataCleanOutputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.copy.backoff</name><value>300</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.inmem.merge.threshold</name><value>1000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.size</name><value>10000000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexInputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.genomix.pregelix.format.DataCleanInputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.queue.name</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.active</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.incStateLength</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.slowstart.completed.maps</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.script.number.args</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.max.skip.records</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.ftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.ftp.FTPFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.cache.levels</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.handler.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>io.serializations</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.WritableSerialization</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connect.max.retries</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.min.split.size</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>jobclient.output.filter</name><value>FAILED</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.acls.enabled</name><value>false</value></property>
+</configuration>
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diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/only_bridgeremove.txt b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/only_bridgeremove.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..53537cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/only_bridgeremove.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+BridgeRemoveGraph.xml
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/only_bubblemerge.txt b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/only_bubblemerge.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..417161c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/only_bubblemerge.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+BubbleMergeGraph.xml
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/only_pathmerge.txt b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/only_pathmerge.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3d007d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/only_pathmerge.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+P4ForMergeGraph.xml
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/only_tipadd.txt b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/only_tipadd.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..53eecdd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/only_tipadd.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+TipAddGraph.xml
diff --git a/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/only_tipremove.txt b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/only_tipremove.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7392b4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/genomix/genomix-pregelix/src/test/resources/only_tipremove.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+TipRemoveGraph.xml