Speaker
Dr
Kimmo Mattila
(Centre fo Scientific Computing - CSC, Finland)
Description
Running BLAST in Clusters
NCBI BLAST is one of the most of the most frequently used bioinformatics tools. BLAST answers to the question: “What known sequences are significantly similar to my sample sequence”. Answers to this question is needed in numerous bioinformatics analyses and work-flows.
As the sequence databases keep growing as well as the sizes of the data sets to be analyzed, a HPC cluster environment is often needed for BLAST analyses.
In this half a day session we briefly go though the basic features of BLAST and issues related to maintaining and using BLAST in HPC cluster environments.