An efficient parallel implementation of the hidden Markov methods for genomic sequence search on a massively parallel system

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 15-23

  Jiang, Karl ^a   Thorsen, Oystein ^a   Peters, Amanda ^a   Smith, Brian ^a   Sosa, Carlos P ^b  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Genomic sequence search; Hidden Markov models; HMMER; Massively parallel systems; Multiple master parallelization; Parallel implementation

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

GENOMIC SEQUENCE SEARCH; MASSIVELY PARALLEL SYSTEM; MULTIPLE MASTER PARALLELIZATION;

BIOINFORMATICS;

EID: 37149053738     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2007.70712     Document Type: Article

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