PRoMT: inferring demographic history from DNA sequences
Author(s) -
Stephen Wooding
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/16.3.298
Subject(s) - documentation , workstation , computer science , sequence (biology) , demographic history , code (set theory) , speedup , source code , theoretical computer science , parallel computing , programming language , biology , genetics , operating system , gene , set (abstract data type) , genetic variation
I describe a parallel implementation of Rogers' mismatch algorithm, a method for making inferences about demographic history from DNA sequence data. The program is distributed on clusters of workstations, providing a substantial speedup and low execution times on large numbers of nodes.
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