New phylogenetic venues opened by a novel implementation of the DNAml algorithm

O Trelles; C Ceron; H C Wang; J Dopazo; J M Carazo

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/14.6.544

New phylogenetic venues opened by a novel implementation of the DNAml algorithm

Bioinformatics. 1998;14(6):544-5. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/14.6.544.

Authors

O Trelles¹, C Ceron, H C Wang, J Dopazo, J M Carazo

Affiliation

¹ Computer Architecture Department, University of Malaga, 29071 Malaga, Spain. ots@ac.uma.es

PMID: 9694996
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/14.6.544

Abstract

Summary: This note describes the parallelization of a key biological application, such as the construction of phylogenetic trees, using the DNAml program. A careful run-time analysis allowed us to propose an efficient parallelization that scaled very well to large problem sizes.

Availability: By anonymous ftp at ftp.ac.uma. es (/pub/ots/pDNAml) or from our web site http://www.cnb.uam. es/www/software/software_index.html

Contact: ots@ac.uma.es

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Algorithms*
Computational Biology
DNA / genetics*
Databases, Factual
Likelihood Functions*
Phylogeny*
Software*

Substances

DNA