BMC Bioinformatics

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PLAST: parallel local alignment search tool for database comparison

Van Hoa Nguyen1 and Dominique Lavenier1,2

Author Affiliations

1 Symbiose team-project, INRIA/IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France

2 ENS Cachan Bretagne, Campus de Ker Lann, 35170 Bruz, France

BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10:329 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-329

Published: 12 October 2009

Additional files

Additional file 1:

Supplementary ROC curve. The ROC curves for the SCOP/ASTRAL40 data set of PLASTP and BLASTP with E-value of 10-3 and ROC curves for the Yeast data set of TPLASTN and TBLASTN with E-value of 1.

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Additional file 2:

Misalignments of PLAST and BLAST. The sensitivity results of BLAST and PLAST for four large sets of data: GB1-NR versus PROT-SCOP-3K, GB1-NR versus PROT-SCOP-10K, SWPROT versus DNA-GB-3K and SWPROT versus DNA-GB-10K.

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Additional file 3:

Single-threaded performance. The comparison of performance of BLAST and PLAST families running with single-threaded and non-SSE.

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