BLAST-ing in Parallel: Enabling an Essential Computational Tool to Keep Pace with the Explosive Growth in Biological Sequence Data
| Url | http://www.shodor.org/petascale/materials/UPModules/BLAST/ |
| Creator | Jeff Krause |
| Contributor | Jennifer Houchins, Aaron Weeden, Michael Ly |
| Publisher | Shodor Education Foundation |
| Description | This module explores the inner workings of the BLAST similarity search tool, considering the algorithm and the impact of various search conditions and settings on performance. Various approaches to parallelizing the computation and their performance impacts are considered. Benchmarking of the mpiBLAST parallel code is carried out at different scales. |
| Format | C, Word, Other |
| Subject | Education, Computational Science, Biology |
| Keyword | sequence similarity, DNA, BLAST |
| Audience | Educator, Learner/Student, Student |