Parallel computation in biological sequence analysis

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 283-294

  Yap, Tieng K ^b   Frieder, Ophir ^a,c   Martino, Robert L ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Alignment; Comparison; Computation; Database; Parallel; Retrieval; Search; Sequence; Speculative

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032024312     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/71.674320     Document Type: Article

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