ElasticBLAST: accelerating sequence search via cloud computing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Biomedical researchers use alignments produced by BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) to categorize their query sequences. Producing such alignments is an essential bioinformatics task that is well suited for the cloud. The cloud can perform many calculations quickly as well as store and access large volumes of data. Bioinformaticians can also use it to collaborate with other researchers, sharing their results, datasets and even their pipelines on a common platform.

Results

We present ElasticBLAST, a cloud native application to perform BLAST alignments in the cloud. ElasticBLAST can handle anywhere from a few to many thousands of queries and run the searches on thousands of virtual CPUs (if desired), deleting resources when it is done. It uses cloud native t

SUBMITTER: Camacho C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10040096 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature