BLAST and other parallel sequence comparison programs

[Patrick Geoffray]

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.

BLACS (Basic Linear Algebra Communication Subsystem) is a communication 
abstraction for parallel linear algebra librairies.
PBLAS is a parallel implementation of the BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra
Subsystem), 
a set of LA operation (vectors and matrices).

I do not see the link with BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool)
used in the 
genomic world. Names are very close, but that's all :-)

Patrick

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