Computer Science – Mathematical Software
Scientific paper
2009-05-05
Computer Science
Mathematical Software
Scientific paper
Open source bioinformatics tools running under MS Windows are rare to find, and those running under Windows HPC cluster are almost non-existing. This is despite the fact that the Windows is the most popular operating system used among life scientists. Therefore, we introduce in this initiative WinBioinfTools, a toolkit containing a number of bioinformatics tools running under Windows High Performance Computing Server 2008. It is an open source code package, where users and developers can share and add to. We currently start with three programs from the area of sequence analysis: 1) CoCoNUT for pairwise genome comparison, 2) parallel BLAST for biological database search, and 3) parallel global pairwise sequence alignment. In this report, we focus on technical aspects concerning how some components of these tools were ported from Linux/Unix environment to run under Windows. We also show the advantages of using the Windows HPC Cluster 2008. We demonstrate by experiments the performance gain achieved when using a computer cluster against a single machine. Furthermore, we show the results of comparing the performance of WinBioinfTools on the Windows and Linux Cluster.
Abouelhoda Mohamed
Mohamed Hisham
No associations
LandOfFree
WinBioinfTools: Bioinformatics Tools for Windows High Performance Computing Server 2008 does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.
If you have personal experience with WinBioinfTools: Bioinformatics Tools for Windows High Performance Computing Server 2008, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and WinBioinfTools: Bioinformatics Tools for Windows High Performance Computing Server 2008 will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-450624