Performance characterization of BLAST for the grid

Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, BIBE

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1394-1398

  Afgan, Enis ^a   Bangalore, Purushotham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarks; Genomic sequences; Performance trade off; Sequence database; Similarity search

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BENCHMARKING; BIOINFORMATICS; COMMERCE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; RADIO TELESCOPES; TURNAROUND TIME;

BENCHMARKS; GENOMIC SEQUENCES; PERFORMANCE TRADE-OFF; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SIMILARITY SEARCH;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 47649123571     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIBE.2007.4375754     Document Type: Conference Paper

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