Parcel offers 7,000 processor GeneMatcher computer for academicsPasadena 05 March 2001 Paracel, a business unit of Celera Genomics, has launched its new GeneMatcher for Education (GME) programme, a supercomputing opportunity for academic researchers. The GME program offers a pre-owned GeneMatcher-Plus - a fully configured nine-board unit comprising a total of 6,912 processors, a suite of sensitive search algorithms and the Paracel user interfaces, BioView Toolkit and BioView Workbench.
Under the GME program, Paracel's GeneMatcher-Plus high-throughput
sequence similarity analysis supercomputers are offered to educational
institutions at a special price. Using the GeneMatcher, scientists can
apply computationally intensive algorithms to the recently completed
human genome to significantly accelerate their large-scale research
projects.
GME is priced at
US$105,000 for educational institutions worldwide. This price includes
a 12-month warranty and a second year of GeneMatcher support.
GME provides academic researchers with a suite of advanced
algorithms for analysis along with the computing power of the
GeneMatcher. Researchers reap the benefits of applying GeneMatcher's
nearly 7,000 processors to computationally intensive algorithms that
typically cannot be run on conventional hardware. Customers also have
the option of loading their own data sets onto the GME system.
Introduced in 1997, Paracel's GeneMatcher was the first computer
designed for commercial use with custom application-specific
integrated circuit (ASIC) technology to specifically analyze genetic
information. GeneMatcher computers precisely analyze similarities and
differences of DNA or protein sequences in relation to other sequences
of known genetic location and function. These comparisons provide
researchers with critical insights for drug discovery and other
genetic research applications.
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