Scanning protein sequence databanks using a distributed processing workstation network |
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| Authors: | Barton Geoffrey J. |
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| Affiliation: | Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, The Rex Richards Building South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK |
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| Abstract: | The programme pscan has been developed to distribute proteindatabank scans over a network of computers that share a commonfilesystem. pscan may be used in conjunction with most conventionalsequence comparison programmes with few modifications. In testruns using the Smith Waterman dynamic programming algorithm,the time required to scan a 6858 sequence databank using a querysequence 740 residues long was reduced from  50 min for a singleprocessor, to 11 minutes for five processors. Accordingly, pscanprovides a low-cost, portable alternative to dedicated parallelprocessing computers. Received on August 27, 1990; accepted on September 25, 1990 |
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