Parallel CLUSTAL W for PC clusters

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2668, Issue , 2003, Pages 300-309

  Cheetham, James ^a   Dehne, Frank ^a   Pitre, Sylvain ^a   Rau Chaplin, Andrew ^b   Taillon, Peter J ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

CLUSTAL W; Computational Biochemistry; Multiple Sequence Alignment; Parallel Computing

Indexed keywords

MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CLUSTALW; COMPUTATIONAL BIOCHEMISTRIES; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY PC CLUSTERS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; MPI COMMUNICATION LIBRARY; MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; PARALLEL VERSION; SHARED-MEMORY PARALLELS;

MEMORY ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 24744461412     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44843-8_32     Document Type: Article

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