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Serdar Bozdag1, Aiguo Li, Stefan Wuchty, Howard A Fine.
Abstract
MOTIVATION: In order to construct gene regulatory networks of higher organisms from gene expression and promoter sequence data efficiently, we developed FastMEDUSA. In this parallelized version of the regulatory network-modeling tool MEDUSA, expression and sequence data are shared among a user-defined number of processors on a single multi-core machine or cluster. Our results show that FastMEDUSA allows a more efficient utilization of computational resources. While the determination of a regulatory network of brain tumor in Homo sapiens takes 12 days with MEDUSA, FastMEDUSA obtained the same results in 6 h by utilizing 100 processors. AVAILABILITY: Source code and documentation of FastMEDUSA are available at https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/NOBbioinf/FastMEDUSAEntities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20513661 PMCID: PMC2894517 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq275
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Bioinformatics ISSN: 1367-4803 Impact factor: 6.937