Grid computing for bioinformatics and computational biology /
edited by El-Ghazali Talbi, Albert Y. Zomaya.
- Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, �2008.
- 1 online resource (xv, 392 pages) : illustrations
- Wiley series on bioinformatics .
- Wiley series on bioinformatics. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
GRID COMPUTING FOR BIOINFORMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1. Open Computing Grid for Molecular Sciences; 2. Designing High-Performance Concurrent Strategies for Biological Sequence Alignment Problems on Networked Computing Platforms; 3. Optimized Cluster-Enabled HMMER Searches; 4. Expanding the Reach of Grid Computing: Combining Globus- and BOINC-Based Systems; 5. Hierarchical Grid Computing for High-Performance Bioinformatics; 6. Multiple Sequence Alignment and Phylogenetic Inference.
Provides details on modern and ongoing research on Grid applications. This book discusses bio ontology and data mining; data visualization; DNA assembly, clustering, and mapping; molecular evolution and phylogeny; gene expression and micro arrays; gene identification and annotation; and molecular modeling and simulation.