CNUSC opens new service in bio-sequences

Paris, 03 November 97 CNUSC is about to open a new service in bio-sequences comparisons. Based on the LASSAP software package, a parallelized program developed at INRIA-Rocquencourt, this service will take advantage of the SP2/79 processors performance for bio-sequences comparisons.

The advantages of the SP2/79 for bio-sequences comparisons are:

one sequence against a bank
or a bank against another bank.

The LASSAP package integrates several methods of sequence comparisons (BLAST, FASTA, Smith and Waterman, ...). It provides automatic spreading of the comparison of all pairs of sequences, whichever algorithm is chosen.

The current implementation is based on the PVM library and the user interface is written in Java.

All the well known proteic and nucleic databanks are available as a mirror version of INFOBIOGEN.

This kind of computing is well adapted to parallel architectures because comparisons are independent.

Jean-Loic Delhaye