BLAST and other parallel sequence comparison programs

Martin Siegert siegert at sfu.ca
Sat Jul 14 13:42:29 PDT 2001


On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:30:45PM -0500, W Bauske wrote:
> Martin Siegert wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:28:09PM -0400, William Pearson wrote:
> > >
> > > To my knowledge, there is no generally available parallel implementation
> > > of BLAST.
> > 
> > There is BLACS and PBLAS (part of ScaLAPACK).
> > All available at www.netlib.org.
> > 
> 
> Martin,
> 
> I think he's talking about DNA sequencing code, not BLAS
> codes.

Oops. I guess I wasn't quite awake yet. Yes, I did mix up BLAS and BLAST.
Sorry for that.

Martin




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