PARALIGN -- rapid and sensitive sequence similarity searches powered by parallel computing technology
What you can do:
Identify distantly related sequences in both nucleotide and amino acid sequence databases.
Highlights:
- PARALIGN is a rapid and sensitive similarity search tool for the identification of distantly related sequences in both nucleotide and amino acid sequence databases.
- Two algorithms are implemented, accelerated Smith-Waterman and ParAlign.
- The ParAlign algorithm is similar to Smith-Waterman in sensitivity, while as quick as BLAST for protein searches.
- A form of parallel computing technology known as multimedia technology that is available in modern processors, but rarely used by other bioinformatics software, has been exploited to achieve the high speed.
- The software is also designed to run efficiently on computer clusters using the message-passing interface standard.
Keywords:
- nucleotide sequence analysis tool
- DNA sequence analysis tool
- amino acid sequence analysis tool
- protein sequence analysis tool
- sequence similarity search tool
- sequence alignment tool
- sequence homology
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This record last updated: 12-16-2005