Hi,
I know there are already some threads dealing with minimal configuration of a workstation for bioinformatics, but people talk mostly about assembling or mapping speed. I am working on bacterial genomes, so assembling speed is not that much of a problem today.
I would like to configure a workstation machine to be able to do multiple genome comparisons, including whole genome alignments, blast all-against-all of genes and the following phylogenetic/tree building work, of something between, say, 100-300 genomes.
Could someone give me some hints on the minimal hardware configuration needed for these sort of tasks? I was told blast can be quite demanding on hardware.
Thanks a lot.
I know there are already some threads dealing with minimal configuration of a workstation for bioinformatics, but people talk mostly about assembling or mapping speed. I am working on bacterial genomes, so assembling speed is not that much of a problem today.
I would like to configure a workstation machine to be able to do multiple genome comparisons, including whole genome alignments, blast all-against-all of genes and the following phylogenetic/tree building work, of something between, say, 100-300 genomes.
Could someone give me some hints on the minimal hardware configuration needed for these sort of tasks? I was told blast can be quite demanding on hardware.
Thanks a lot.
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