BLAST Beta Tested
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Massively Parallel Technologies (MPT), a provider of on-demand high-performance computing, announced today that early beta testers of its BioTech BLAST Virtual Power Center(R) (VPC) dramatically reduced time-to-answers for large and complex search sequences. The beta tester program helped the company to better understand the challenges and needs of life scientists related to search sequences that currently take hours or days to complete. MPT's version of BLAST is a high-speed and high-throughput implementation of the National Center for Bioinformatics' BLAST software that transparently and efficiently harnesses the power of hundreds of compute nodes for large queries and databases. Academic researchers and a service provider for computational resources and bioinformatics, acted as the beta testers. They used the Internet accessible VPC to conduct their searches. The ability to submit a large and complex BLAST query via the Internet is impressive in and of itself, but the time-to-answer was far better than anything I've ever experienced before, said Alecksandr Kutchma, Bioinformatics Research Assistant Professor at the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes Research a the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCHSC). Kutchma's initial testing also compared NCBI BLAST and WU-BLAST to MPT's BLAST VPC capabilities using the same search criteria. The benchmarking indicates that MPT delivers the fastest solution with the highest quality of results.
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