GridBLAST: A Globus-based high-throughput implementation of BLAST in a Grid computing framework

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1607-1623

  Krishnan, Arun ^a  

^a BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Grid application; High throughput BLAST

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTATION THEORY;

COMPUTING RESOURCES; DATA GRIDS; GRID APPLICATION;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 27644464706     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.906     Document Type: Article

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