title: A distributed system for DNA/protein database similarity searches.
abstract: A distributed system for exhaustive alignment similarity searches on DNA/protein databases is presented. The system makes it possible to share the computational burden on diverse computers, provided they are interconnected by a network supporting TCP/IP communication. It consists of three separate programs: a user-interface module, a similarity score calculation module (multiple instances of which may be running simultaneously on different machines), and a control module. This last acts as the 'hub' of the system. The three programs have been successfully tested under the AIX, SunOS, VAX/VMS and MS/DOS operating systems.
authors.affiliation: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto Tecnologie Informatiche Multimediali, Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: F E
authors.initials: FE
authors.lastname: Penotti
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D004247:DNA / Q000032:analysis*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D011506:Proteins / Q000032:analysis*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins; D004247:DNA