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Wu-chun Feng
Life Sciences
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Open AccessmuBLASTP: database-indexed protein sequence search on multicore CPUs
The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) is a fundamental program in the life sciences that searches databases for sequences that are most similar to a query sequence. Currently, the BLAST algorithm utili...
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Open AccessHigh-performance biocomputing for simulating the spread of contagion over large contact networks
Many important biological problems can be modeled as contagion diffusion processes over interaction networks. This article shows how the EpiSimdemics interaction-based simulation system can be applied to the g...
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Open AccessMulti-dimensional characterization of electrostatic surface potential computation on graphics processors
Calculating the electrostatic surface potential (ESP) of a biomolecule is critical towards understanding biomolecular function. Because of its quadratic computational complexity (as a function of the number of at...
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Open AccessMissing genes in the annotation of prokaryotic genomes
Protein-coding gene detection in prokaryotic genomes is considered a much simpler problem than in intron-containing eukaryotic genomes. However there have been reports that prokaryotic gene finder programs hav...
