Assembling genomes on large-scale parallel computers

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1240-1255

  Kalyanaraman, A ^a   Emrich, S J ^b,c   Schnable, P S ^c   Aluru, S ^b,c  

^a Washington State University   (United States)

^b Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational biology; Genome assembly; Genome sequencing; Parallel algorithms; Suffix trees

Indexed keywords

GENES; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; NUCLEOTIDES; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); SUPERCOMPUTERS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOME SEQUENCING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; SUFFIX TREES;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 35748931207     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2007.05.014     Document Type: Article

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