title: Disperse: a simple and efficient approach to parallel database searching.
abstract: A general system for performing multiple independent database searches in parallel is presented. Run-time addition and removal of clients, robust failure and error trapping and near 100% efficiency with very large numbers of clients are achieved by a flexible asynchronous, client-driven approach.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computing, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK. r.clifford@ic.ac.uk
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Clifford
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Mackey
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology; D016208:Databases, Factual; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012984:Software