QMachine: Commodity supercomputing in web browsers

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Wilkinson, Sean R ^a,b   Almeida, Jonas S ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b and Radiation Oncology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Crowdsourcing; Distributed computing; JavaScript; MapReduce; PaaS; Sequence analysis; Web service

Indexed keywords

BIG DATA; BIOINFORMATICS; CLOUD COMPUTING; DISEASES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GENES; HTTP; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES;

CROWDSOURCING; JAVASCRIPT; MAP-REDUCE; PAAS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

WEB BROWSERS;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; WEB BROWSER;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 84902649966     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-15-176     Document Type: Article

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