Grid-based storage architecture for accelerating bioinformatics computing

Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 311-324

  Wang, Frank Zhigang ^a   Helian, N A ^a   Wu, Sining ^a   Deng, Yuhui ^a   Khare, Vineet ^a   Thompson, Chris ^a  

^a Centre for Grid Computing   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics computing; Computer architecture; Data storage; Grid computing; Microarray data mining; Nucleotide sequence database searching; Pattern matching; Sequence alignment

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DNA SEQUENCES; MICROARRAYS; NUCLEOTIDES; PATTERN MATCHING;

BIOINFORMATICS COMPUTING; DATA STORAGE; DATABASE SEARCHING; MICROARRAY DATA MINING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 34548444068     PISSN: 13875485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11265-007-0066-5     Document Type: Article

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