<![CDATA[BOL: PLAST: A fast, accurate and NGS scalable bank-to-bank sequence similarity search tool]]> https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34493/plast-a-fast-accurate-and-ngs-scalable-bank-to-bank-sequence-similarity-search-tool? https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34493/plast-a-fast-accurate-and-ngs-scalable-bank-to-bank-sequence-similarity-search-tool Fri, 01 Dec 2017 04:10:54 -0600 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34493/plast-a-fast-accurate-and-ngs-scalable-bank-to-bank-sequence-similarity-search-tool <![CDATA[PLAST: A fast, accurate and NGS scalable bank-to-bank sequence similarity search tool]]> PLAST is a fast, accurate and NGS scalable bank-to-bank sequence similarity search tool providing significant accelerations of seeds-based heuristic comparison methods, such as the Blast suite of algorithms.

Relying on unique software architecture, PLAST takes full advantage of recent multi-core personal computers without requiring any additional hardware devices.

PLAST stands for Parallel Local Sequence Alignment Search Tool and is was published in BMC Bioinformatics.

PLAST is a general purpose sequence comparison tool providing the following benefits:

  • PLAST is a high-performance sequence comparison tool designed to compare two sets of sequences (query vs. reference),
  • Reduces the processing time of sequences comparisons while providing highest quality results,
  • Contains a fully integrated data filtering engine capable of selecting relevant hits with user-defined criteria (E-Value, identity, coverage, alignment length, etc.),
  • Does not require any additional hardware, since it is a software solution. It is easy to install, cost-effective, takes full advantage of multi-core processors and uses a small RAM footprint,
  • Ready to be used on desktop computer, cluster, cloud as well as within distributed system running Hadoop.

https://plast.inria.fr/

Address of the bookmark: https://plast.inria.fr/

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