ScalaBLAST: A Scalable Implementation of BLAST for High-Performance Data-Intensive Bioinformatics Analysis

• Published in: IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems Vol. 17; no. 8; pp. 740 - 749
• Main Authors: Oehmen, C., Nieplocha, J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.08.2006; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Assembly; Bioinformatics; BLAST; Data analysis; DNA; Genetics; Genomes; Genomics; Global Arrays; High-performance sequence alignment; Microorganisms; Proteins; Sequences; Studies

Genes in an organism's DNA (genome) have embedded in them information about proteins, which are the molecules that do most of a cell's work. A typical bacterial genome contains on the order of 5,000 genes. Mammalian genomes can contain tens of thousands of genes. For each genome sequenced,...