VIVEK KHURANA

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Mobile Gateway for Distributed BLAST In SORCER
Environment
VIVEK KHURANA khurana_at_cs.ttu.edu
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Presentation Agenda

• About BLAST
• Motivation
• Implementation
• Mobile Gateway Implementation
• Future Tasks
• Acknowledgement
• Demo

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About BLAST

• BLAST-Basic Local Alignment Tool
• BLAST is an acronym for Basic Local Alignment
  Search Tool.
• BLAST is a sophisticated software package used in
  Bioinformatics and Sequence Analysis for rapid
  searching of nucleotide and protein databases.
• Local Alignment -The alignment of some portion of
  two nucleic acid or protein sequences
• Query Sequence ( Can Range from 50 Characters to
  4000 Characters)

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Motivation Goals

• Motivation
• BLAST is Fast and Reliable , BUT the Sequence
  World is Big and Growing Rapidly
• BLAST is Difficult to Install and Use for a Naïve
  User
• BLAST is not easily potable
• Goals
• Mobile Gateway to receive BLAST command and
  parameters from MIDP phone
• Make the Process Distributed to Increase
  Performance and Reduce Load on each Computer
• Focus on high throughput of large numbers of
  submissions instead of high performance on any
  single job
• Provide a working system that is easy to Install
  and Use
• Design Web Service for BLAST job submission

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Features of BLAST

• Implements the BLAST in a Distributed Environment
  
• Can be Used as a Web Service
• Easy Installation Using Batch Files
• All Libraries and Business Logic Code is
  Downloaded i.e. Easily potable
• Self-Healing Environment, Can overcome crashes
• Is able to anticipate different scenarios and
  predict and plan for novel futures
• It would learn, when faced with a new situation
• Resource sharing

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Features of BLAST Mobile GatewayT

• Acts as a gateway for Blast commands from mobile
  device
• Receives parameters from the phone for
  customization of BLAST command
• Puts the input values in the context
• Communicates with the BlastProvider to Call Blast
  Method on Taskers
• Retrieves Results From Blast Provider

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The Process Structure
S-BlastGateway
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The Universal Tasker

• The Business Logic is separate from the whole
  framework.
• The Program Learns new code, and adapts itself
• Can be Used as a Web Service
• Easy Installation Using Batch Files
• The Agent Method is downloaded dynamically from
  internet.
• The context is passed to the method by requestor
  and the results are returned.

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DEMO
DEMO
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Acknowledgements
Special Thanks to Sekhar Soorinarayanan Dr.
Michael Soboloweski And Dr Scot Dowd from USDA
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