Gavin, You might want to check out the work of Roger Chamberlain's group at Washington University. See his 2005 paper "Acceleration of Ungapped Extension in Mercury BLAST" ( http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/~roger/papers/lbc05.pdf). -Dan Thomasset On 8/20/07, Gavin.Kennedy at csiro.au <Gavin.Kennedy at csiro.au> wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > Has anyone had recent experience with FPGA accelerators for BLAST? I'm > interested to hear whether they have advanced much since 2002, when they > seemingly weren't delivering on their promises. I'm interested to hear > experiences with them, both at the desktop and cluster level. No vendors > please. > > > > Gav > > > > Gavin Kennedy > > Bioinformatics Leader > > CSIRO Plant Industry > > Canberra, ACT, 2601 > > Australia > > ph: (61)2-6246-4929 > > http://www.pi.csiro.au > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters >