Cloud-Coffee: implementation of a parallel consistency-based multiple alignment algorithm in the T-Coffee package and its benchmarking on the Amazon Elastic-Cloud
Open Access
- 6 July 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Bioinformatics
- Vol. 26 (15), 1903-1904
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btq304
Abstract
Summary: We present the first parallel implementation of the T-Coffee consistency-based multiple aligner. We benchmark it on the Amazon Elastic Cloud (EC2) and show that the parallelization procedure is reasonably effective. We also conclude that for a web server with moderate usage (10K hits/month) the cloud provides a cost-effective alternative to in-house deployment. Availability: T-Coffee is a freeware open source package available from http://www.tcoffee.org/homepage.html Contact:cedric.notredame@crg.esKeywords
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