SUMMARYWe present the design and use of gMP as a tool for developing distributed bioinformatics applications. gMP is a purely Java-based interface that adds MPI-like message-passing and collective communication to the genomics Research Network Architecture (gRNA). The gRNA is a highly programmable, modular environment specifically designed to invigorate the development of genome-centric tools for life science research. We demonstrate the development of a distributed application to detect regulatory elements using correlation with gene expression data. Its implementation with gMP leads to significant runtime savings on our distributed gRNA system.
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