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Re:Browser Powered Genome Sequencing by daemonk on Monday January 27, 2014 @11:00AM (#7130978)
I am a bioinformatician and I regularly align sequences against large databases. I wonder how much faster/cheaper will this be compared to renting out an ec2 instance for a couple of hours and crunching through data.
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Re:Browser Powered Genome Sequencing by pedrombafonso on Monday January 27, 2014 @11:23AM (#7131150)
In addition, CrowdProcess can be used within an internal network using, for instance, the idle browsers of an institution. That would allow you to run a benchmark in a more controlled environment.
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Re:Browser Powered Genome Sequencing by fjsousa on Monday January 27, 2014 @11:10AM (#7131045)
You are using idle computing time to process the alignment so the costs are much lower. That said, we don't have exact figures to compare with an EC2 solution yet.
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