A lightweight supercomputing Web portal for inferring phylogenetic trees

In this paper we describe a lightweight Web portal developed for running computational jobs on a IBM JS21 Bladecenter cluster, ThamesBlue, for inferring and analyzing evolutionary histories. We first discuss the need for leveraging HPC as a enabler for molecular phylogenetics research. We go on to d...

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Main Authors: Johnson, D., Meade, A., Alexandrov, V.N.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Application software
Biology computing
Computer interfaces
Data analysis
Graphical user interfaces
High performance computing
History
Open source software
Phylogeny
Portals
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Summary:In this paper we describe a lightweight Web portal developed for running computational jobs on a IBM JS21 Bladecenter cluster, ThamesBlue, for inferring and analyzing evolutionary histories. We first discuss the need for leveraging HPC as a enabler for molecular phylogenetics research. We go on to describe how the portal is designed to interface with existing open-source software that is typical of a HPC resource configuration, and how by design this portal is generic enough to be portable to other similarly configured compute clusters, and for other applications.
DOI:10.1109/ESCIW.2009.5407990