Title :
Using parallel algorithms for searching molecular sequence databases
Author :
Reis, Carla Correa Tavares dos ; Mondaini, Rubem
Author_Institution :
Oswaldo Cruz Found., Brazil
Abstract :
This work presents the development of algorithms for approximate string matching using parallel methods. It intends to do the maximum of molecular sequences comparisons per unity of time. The parallel program implementation has carried out in C on an available twenty processing nodes clustering architecture using a model of parallel programming systems, the MPI (Message-Passing Interface), which is as library of subroutines. We use one of the possible approaches to reduce the time spent on comparisons of molecular database sequences by distributing the data among processors, which achieves a linear speedup (time) and requires constant space memory per processor.
Keywords :
C language; application program interfaces; biology computing; message passing; molecular biophysics; parallel algorithms; pattern clustering; software libraries; string matching; clustering architecture; linear speedup; message-passing interface; molecular database; molecular sequences; parallel program implementation; parallel programming system; space memory per processor; string matching; subroutines; Algorithm design and analysis; Clustering algorithms; Computational biology; DNA; Databases; Libraries; Parallel algorithms; Parallel programming; Proteins; Sequences;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference, 2005. Workshops and Poster Abstracts. IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2442-7
DOI :
10.1109/CSBW.2005.139