Molecular docking, as one of the widely used virtual screening methods, aims to predict the
binding-conformations of small molecule ligands to the appropriate target binding site …

Designing environmental DNA microarrays that can be used to survey the extreme diversity
of microorganisms existing in nature, represents a stimulating challenge in the field of …

Background Protein-coding gene detection in prokaryotic genomes is considered a much
simpler problem than in intron-containing eukaryotic genomes. However there have been …

Most bioinformatics algorithms are developed in a serial form due to a fast pace of changes
in the subject domain and the fact that many bioinformatics tasks can be parallelized as …

With the explosive growth of genomic information, the searching of sequence databases has
emerged as one of the most computation and data-intensive scientific applications. Our …

This paper presents our first experiences in mapping and optimizing genomic sequence
search onto the massively parallel IBM Blue Gene/P (BG/P) platform. Specifically, we …

Molecular simulations and molecular docking are widely used tools to investigate
ligand/target interactions and in drug design. High‐performance computing (HPC) is …

Bioinformatics databases used for sequence comparison and sequence alignment are
growing exponentially. This has popularized programs that carry out database searches …

This paper shows a global picture of the deployment of networked processing services for
genomic data sets. Many current research and medical activities make an extensive use of …

Bioinformatics is a rapidly developing field enabling scientific experiments via computer
models and simulations. In recent years, there has been an extraordinary growth in …