Abstract
The programme pscan has been developed to distribute protein databank scans over a network of computers that share a common file system. pscan may be used in conjunction with most conventional sequence comparison programmes with few modifications. In test runs using the Smith-Waterman dynamic programming algorithm, the time required to scan a 6858 sequence databank using a query sequence 740 residues long was reduced from approximately 50 min for a single processor, to approximately 11 minutes for five processors. Accordingly, pscan provides a low-cost, portable alternative to dedicated parallel processing computers.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 85-8 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Computer Applications in the Biosciences |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jan 1991 |
Keywords
- Algorithms
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Computer Communication Networks
- Genomic Library
- Programming Languages
- Proteins
- Software