BLAST remains one of the most widely used tools in computational biology. The rate at which new sequence data is available continues to grow exponentially, driving the emergence of new fields of biological research. At the same time multicore systems and conventional clusters are more accessible. ScalaBLAST has been designed to run on conventional multiprocessor systems with an eye to extreme parallelism, enabling parallel BLAST calculations using over 16,000 processing cores with a portable, robust, fault-resilient design. ScalaBLAST 2.0 source code can be freely downloaded from http://omics.pnl.gov/software/ScalaBLAST.php.
Revised: April 1, 2013 |
Published: March 15, 2013
Citation
Oehmen C.S., and D.J. Baxter. 2013.ScalaBLAST 2.0: Rapid and robust BLAST calculations on multiprocessor systems.Bioinformatics 29, no. 6:797-8.PNNL-SA-87629.doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btt013