Does anyone have any experience running BLAST with XGrid?
Googling reveals a tool called 'Xgrid BLAST' existed but not where to get.
A:
BLAST is included with Xgrid. Quoting from "Utilization of a Local Grid of Mac OS X-Based Computers using Xgrid":
Xgrid includes a powerful, customizable, general-purpose job submission interface and Xgrid BLAST, a fully functional, grid-enabled application based on Xgrid technology that runs instances of the NCBI BLAST local alignment search algorithm tool.
After you have installed Xgrid, you can open /Applications/Xgrid BLAST.app on any client computer.
For more information, see:
- the Xgrid installation documentation by the University of Utah.
- How to use Apple's xgrid for running BLAST jobs by the NACS Research Computing Support Group
- Xgrid basics by the Blaxter Lab at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh. It includes a sample Perl file to submit BLAST jobs to Xgrid.
Final tip, if you have any bioinformatics related questions on the future, there is a StackOverflow clone specifically geared towards bioinformaticians called BioStars. You might get a quicker answer there.
BioGeek
2010-03-11 13:46:30