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Wrapping up BLAST and other applications for use on Unix clusters
Karsten Hokamp1, Denis C Shields, Kenneth H Wolfe
1Department of Genetics, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. karsten@oscar.gen.tcd.ie
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
|February 14, 2003
Abstract
Unlabelled:
We have developed two programs that speed up common bioinformatic applications by spreading them across a UNIX cluster.(1) BLAST.pm, a new module for the 'MOLLUSC' package. (2) WRAPID, a simple tool for parallelizing large numbers of small instances of programs such as BLAST, FASTA and CLUSTALW.
Availability:
The packages were developed in Perl on a 20-node Linux cluster and are provided together with a configuration script and documentation. They can be freely downloaded from http://wolfe.gen.tcd.ie/wrapper.