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BMCBI
2004
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SS-Wrapper: a package of wrapper applications for similarity searches on Linux clusters
Background: Large-scale sequence comparison is a powerful tool for biological inference in modern molecular biology. Comparing new sequences to those in annotated databases is a u...
Chunlin Wang, Elliot J. Lefkowitz
BMCBI
2005
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Automated methods of predicting the function of biological sequences using GO and BLAST
Background: With the exponential increase in genomic sequence data there is a need to develop automated approaches to deducing the biological functions of novel sequences with hig...
Craig E. Jones, Ute Baumann, Alfred L. Brown
WOB
2004
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An I/O Device Driver for Bioinformatics Tools: the case for BLAST
There are many bioinformatics tools that deal with input/ output (I/O) issues by using filing systems from the most common operating systems, such as Linux or MS Windows. However, ...
Renato Mauro, Sérgio Lifschitz
CF
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Parallel genomic sequence-search on a massively parallel system
In the life sciences, genomic databases for sequence search have been growing exponentially in size. As a result, faster sequencesearch algorithms to search these databases contin...
Oystein Thorsen, Brian E. Smith, Carlos P. Sosa, K...
IPPS
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
RC-BLAST: Towards a Portable, Cost-Effective Open Source Hardware Implementation
Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) is a standard computer application that molecular biologists use to search for sequence similarity in genomic databases. This report desc...
Krishna Muriki, Keith D. Underwood, Ron Sass
IPPS
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Comparison of Current BLAST Software on Nucleotide Sequences
The computational power needed for searching exponentially growing databases, such as GenBank, has increased dramatically. Three different implementations of the most widely used ...
I. Elizabeth Cha, Eric C. Rouchka
ICSM
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A Maintainable Software Architecture for Fast and Modular Bioinformatics Sequence Search
Bioinformaticists use the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) to characterize an unknown sequence by comparing it against a database of known sequences, thus detecting evolu...
Jeremy S. Archuleta, Eli Tilevich, Wu-chun Feng