CLC Bioinformatics Cell - hardware-acceleration on your desktop

Do you know how many search results you are missing when using BLAST? Up to 50% of the hits are not found using BLAST. If you want 100% of the answers, and still want fast searches, you can improve the quality of your research by using the CLC Bioinformatics Cell.

The Cell includes the fastest Smith Waterman implementation ever made on standard hardware - nucleotide searches are accelerated up to 110 times and protein searches are accelerated up to 50 times on new computers.

White paper extract

In addition to documenting the Cells impressive speed-ups, the white paper elaborates on some important differences between Smith-Waterman based searches and BLAST searches:

  • BLAST is the better in the explorative phases of the research, and Smith Waterman is the better in the late stages of the research, where absolutely correct results are more important than estimates.
  • If you have query sequence data with too many of inherent errors, BLAST searches would often be so imprecise that the results are wrong or misleading.

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Product sheet

BFX CELL

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Assembly Cell

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User manual

NextGen Seq Cell

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Bioinformatics Cell

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Download white paper

If you're interested in the white paper, you can obtain it by clicking the "download" button below.

 

 

With the Cell, you can speed up a Smith Waterman search previously taking 2 hours to around 1 minute, and the Cell thus removes the argument for using BLAST
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