TY  - JOUR
T1  - A user-friendly web portal for T-Coffee on supercomputers
JF  - BMC Bioinformatics
Y1  - 2011
A1  - J. Rius
A1  - F. Cores
A1  - F. Solsona
A1  - van Hemert, J. I.
A1  - Koetsier, J.
A1  - C. Notredame
KW  - e-Science
KW  - portal
KW  - rapid
AB  - Background Parallel T-Coffee (PTC) was the first parallel implementation of the T-Coffee multiple sequence alignment tool. It is based on MPI and RMA mechanisms. Its purpose is to reduce the execution time of the large-scale sequence alignments. It can be run on distributed memory clusters allowing users to align data sets consisting of hundreds of proteins within a reasonable time. However, most of the potential users of this tool are not familiar with the use of grids or supercomputers. Results In this paper we show how PTC can be easily deployed and controlled on a super computer architecture using a web portal developed using Rapid. Rapid is a tool for efficiently generating standardized portlets for a wide range of applications and the approach described here is generic enough to be applied to other applications, or to deploy PTC on different HPC environments. Conclusions The PTC portal allows users to upload a large number of sequences to be aligned by the parallel version of TC that cannot be aligned by a single machine due to memory and execution time constraints. The web portal provides a user-friendly solution.
VL  - 12
UR  - http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/12/150
ER  -