Gene Sequence Alignment on a Public Computing Platform

Public computing can potentially supply not only computational power but also memory and short term storage resources to grid and cluster scale problems. Gene sequence alignment is a fundamental computational challenge in bioinformatics with attributes such as moderate computational requirements, extensive memory requirements, and highly interdependent tasks. This study examines the performance of calculating the alignment for two 100,000 base sequences on a public computing platform utilizing the BOINC framework. When compared to the theoretical, optimal sequential implementation, the parallel implementation achieves

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ICPPW
• Authors: Stephen Pellicer, Nova Ahmed, Yi Pan, Yao Zheng
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, Fundamental Computational Challenge, ICPPW 2005, Moderate Computational Requirements, Public Computing