Mascot proteomics software ported to IBM's AIX operating systemLondon 23 January 2002 Matrix Science has made available Mascot, the market leader in protein identification software, for IBM's AIX 5L UNIX operating system. Porting to AIX was a joint effort between London based Matrix Science and IBM's Chemistry and Life Sciences Solutions Development Division, in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Mascot enables protein identification using mass spectrometry data, a core technology in proteomics. The search procedure is data-intensive, requiring extensive statistical calculations to be performed while streaming through very large sequence databases, such as dbEST or the draft assembly of the human genome.
AIX 5L provides an open, standards based UNIX operating environment that is supported by a range of IBM eServer pSeries systems from entry-level servers and workstations through to powerful clusters and supercomputers.
As part of its support for pSeries systems, Mascot has been tested on IBM's powerful p690, code named Regatta, which features IBM's innovative system-on-a-chip design, with each chip containing two one-gigahertz-plus processors, a large memory cache and I/O interconnected with other components using a new high performance distributed switch design.
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