[Bioperl-l] What is MPsrch?

[Heikki Lehvaslaiho]

Yes.

In the side bar, link "MPsrch Help":

"MPsrch is a biological protein sequence comparison tool that implements
the true Smith and Waterman algorithm. It runs a search on a HP/COMPAQ
cluster, a family of massively parallel computers. It allows an
exhaustive search in a reasonable computational time. MPsrch utilises an
exhaustive algorithm, which is recognised as the most sensitive sequence
comparison method available, whereas Blast utilises a heuristic one,
which speeds up searches by reducing the complexity of the problem. As a
consequence, MPsrch is capable of identifying hits in cases where Blast
fails with fewer false hits."
 
	-Heikki

On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 18:25, Yee Man wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 	I was reading a Comparative Genomics book written by Koonin &
> Galperin (both NCBI scientists). They mentioned an EBI program called
> MPsrch that does fast Smith-Waterman.
> http://www.ebi.ac.uk/MPsrch/
> 
> 	Is this just an multi-processor implemention of ssearch?
> 
> Thanks
> Yee Man
> 
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