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Does mpiBLAST support PSI-BLAST, PHI-BLAST, RPS-BLAST, etc.?

April 26, 2017mpiblast psi-blast support

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Does mpiBLAST support PSI-BLAST, PHI-BLAST, RPS-BLAST, etc.?

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No. Although it may be possible to parallelize these search algorithms using database segmentation, our preliminary studies indicate they would not benefit as much as the other blast search types do from such a parallelization scheme.