[BiO BB] parallel BLAST

[Jack da Silva]

Jaroslaw Zola wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to know if there exists parallel implementation of BLAST
> algorithms.
> 
> J.Z.
> 
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The current version of NCBI BLAST is multithreaded, so it will run in
parallel on a multiprocessor machine (use the -a option to specify the
number of processors).

-- 
Jack da Silva, PhD
Bioinformatics Project Leader
North Carolina Supercomputing Center

www.ncsc.org/academics/bio_web/