Bioprovider implementation issues: a non-intrusive tool for process scheduling and biological data access - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i2.Sup.99en

Abstract

This work discusses the implementation of BioProvider, a tool that efficiently provides data for biological applications. It uses ad-hoc buffer management policies and specific process scheduling control to deal with very large sequence data. We explain how to consider a non-intrusive approach in order to encourage the use of BioProvider in a transparent way while keeping the original applications unchanged. The first instantiation of BioProvider is tailored to BLAST, the most popular sequence comparison program.

Keywords

• Process scheduling
• biological data access
• BioProvider