Wrapping up BLAST and other applications for use on Unix clusters

被引:20
作者
Hokamp, K [1 ]
Shields, DC
Wolfe, KH
Caffrey, DR
机构
[1] Univ Dublin Trinity Coll, Dept Genet, Dublin 2, Ireland
[2] Royal Coll Surgeons Ireland, Dept Clin Pharmacol, Dublin 2, Ireland
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D O I
10.1093/bioinformatics/btg007
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
We have developed two programs that speed up common bioinformatic applications by spreading them across a UNIX cluster(1) BLAST.pm, a new module for the 'MOLLUSC' package. (2) WRAPID, a simple tool for parallelizing large numbers of small instances of programs such as BLAST, FASTA and CLUSTALW.
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