title: ClustalW-MPI: ClustalW analysis using distributed and parallel computing.
abstract: ClustalW is a tool for aligning multiple protein or nucleotide sequences. The alignment is achieved via three steps: pairwise alignment, guide-tree generation and progressive alignment. ClustalW-MPI is a distributed and parallel implementation of ClustalW. All three steps have been parallelized to reduce the execution time. The software uses a message-passing library called MPI (Message Passing Interface) and runs on distributed workstation clusters as well as on traditional parallel computers.
authors.affiliation: Bioinformatics Institute, 30 Medical Drive, Singapore 117609, Republic of Singapore. kuobin@bii.a-star.edu.sg
authors.forename: Kuo-Bin
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D003205:Computing Methodologies; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein / Q000379:methods*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D012984:Software