From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrey mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-id: <3A995468.7431A9B2@mail.usask.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: [9fans] FASTA DNA sequence search library Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:52:24 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6a0fe20e-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 If anyone is interested in bioinformatics and plan9 (it's very good for testing the distributed capabilities of the OS), i have ported the FASTA packages for gene sequence alignment searches to p9... what i'm basically doing is trying to compare a p9 installation of several cpu servers and a corresponding pvm-based beowulf something or other... since p9 is not optimized and tuned yet, i'm mostly focusing on how much easier coding and distributed computing is on this platform... if anyone is interested send me an email and i'll give you the ported sources... if there's enough interest, once i get this project finished i'll send here an url of my findings (provided it finishes.. ever.. :) cheers, andrey ps: fasta2 is also ported... -- from the documentation (http://www.no.embnet.org/Programs/DB/fastadoc.php3) Version 3 of the FASTA packages contains many programs for searching DNA and protein databases and one program (prss3) for evaluating statistical significance from randomly shuffled sequences. Several additional analysis programs, including programs that produce local alignments, are available as part of version 2 of the FASTA package, which is still available.