BLAST or wu-blast for beowulf? - 2 Bits more

Greg Lindahl lindahl at conservativecomputer.com
Fri Apr 20 10:07:58 PDT 2001


On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:47:44AM -0600, Matt Links wrote:

> There are people working on this problem (us:
> http://bioinfo.pbi.nrc.ca), but AFAIK there is no version of Blast
> designed for a Beowulf that is in the public domain.

Another research project is a UIowa project which partitions the
database and merges the answer at the end using a perl script. It
looks like it ought to be capable of dealing clusters quite well, but
I don't know if the results are public yet.

-- g





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