Keane, Thomas M. and Page, Andrew J. and McInerney, James O. and Naughton, Thomas J. (2005) A high-throughput bioinformatics distributed computing platform. In: Proceedings. 18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2005. IEEE, pp. 377-382. ISBN 0769523552

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Abstract

In the past number of years the demand for high performance computing has greatly increased in the area of bioinformatics. The huge increase in size of many genomic databases has meant that many common tasks in bioinformatics are not possible to complete in a reasonable amount of time on a single processor. Recently distributed computing has emerged as an inexpensive alternative to dedicated parallel computing. We have developed a general-purpose distributed computing platform that is capable of using semi-idle computing resources to simulate a dedicated computing cluster. We have identified the suitability of a number of bioinformatics tasks to distributed computing. We briefly outline and evaluate two distributed bioinformatics programs, DSEARCH and DPRml, which have been developed for our system.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	Bioinfomatics; distributed computing; web computing; public computing;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science
Item ID:	234
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.11
Depositing User:	Andrew Page
Date Deposited:	26 Aug 2005
Publisher:	IEEE
Refereed:	Yes
Funders:	Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology (IRCSET)
URI:	http://ieeexplore.ieee.org
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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