PackageBLAST: An adaptive multi-policy grid serviece for biological sequence comparison

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 156-160

  Sousa, Marcelo S ^a   Melo, Alba Cristina M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Grid computing; Task allocation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; GRID COMPUTING; TASK ALLOCATION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33751048877     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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