BMC Bioinformatics

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ParaKMeans: Implementation of a parallelized K-means algorithm suitable for general laboratory use

Piotr Kraj, Ashok Sharma, Nikhil Garge, Robert Podolsky and Richard A McIndoe*

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Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA USA

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BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:200 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-200

Published: 16 April 2008

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Additional file 1:

Speedup results for the four cluster simulated data using 35, 100 and 200 arrays. For each plot, the y-axis is the speedup value and the x-axis is the number of nodes used to run ParaKMeans. Each line is a different number of genes clustered in that dataset.

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Additional file 2:

Speedup results for the ten cluster simulated data using 35, 100 and 200 arrays. For each plot, the y-axis is the speedup value and the x-axis is the number of nodes used to run ParaKMeans. Each line is a different number of genes clustered in that dataset.

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Additional file 3:

Speedup results for the twenty cluster simulated data using 35, 100 and 200 arrays. For each plot, the y-axis is the speedup value and the x-axis is the number of nodes used to run ParaKMeans. Each line is a different number of genes clustered in that dataset.

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Additional file 4:

ParaKMeans Help system. The Windows Help file contains a description of the program, installation instructions, tutorials and the API documentation.

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Additional file 5:

ParaKMeans windows help file. This file is a windows help file (.chm) that provides a more detailed overview of the software, installation instructions, program tutorials, the ParaKMeans API and troubleshooting help.

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