Hi Franco, I recall that there are some Hadoop-Blast researches/projects. For examples, see
- http://www.cs.umd.edu/Grad/scholarlypapers/papers/MichaelSchatz.pdf - http://salsahpc.indiana.edu/tutorial/hadoopblast.html Nicholas ________________________________ From: Franco Nazareno <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, March 27, 2011 7:51:14 PM Subject: Hadoop for Bioinformatics Good day everyone! First, I want to congratulate the group for this wonderful project. It did open up new ideas and solutions in computing and technology-wise. I'm excited to learn more about it and discover possibilities using Hadoop and its components. Well I just want to ask this with regards to my study. Currently I'm studying my PhD course in Bioinformatics, and my question is that can you give me a (rough) idea if it's possible to use Hadoop cluster in achieving a DNA sequence alignment? My basic idea for this goes something like a string search out of a huge data files stored in HDFS, and the application uses MapReduce in searching and computing. As the Hadoop paradigm impies, it doesn't serve well in interactive applications, and I think this kind of searching is a "write-once, read-many" application. I hope you don't mind my question. And it'll be great hearing your comments or suggestions about this. Thanks and more power! Franco
