title: Distributed computing in bioinformatics.
abstract: This paper provides an overview of methods and current applications of distributed computing in bioinformatics. Distributed computing is a strategy of dividing a large workload among multiple computers to reduce processing time, or to make use of resources such as programs and databases that are not available on all computers. Participating computers may be connected either through a local high-speed network or through the Internet.
authors.affiliation: GeneData, Maulbeerstr, Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jain
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003205:Computing Methodologies; D020407:Internet