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.
Software¹
Cell¹
Cell²
Cell³
Cell4
Cluster
HMMER
0.01
0.35
1.10
2.33
0.82
Smith-Waterman
0.05
3.0
13.0
44.5
8.86
10+
ClustalW
100%
482%
1386%
3032%
1126%
1000%+
Need for cooling
Low
Low
Low
Low
Low
High
Power consumption
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
High
Performance per Dollar
Low
High
High
High
High
Medium
Coming soon
1 3.0 Ghz Pentium 4
2 2.17 Ghz Core 2 Duo
3 2.13 Ghz Xeon X3210 (8 cores)
4 2.6 Ghz Athlon 64 X2
GCUPS: Speed measured in Giga Cell Updates Per Second

Utilize the full power of your cluster

If you have a computer cluster, the Cell provides you with a solution that utilize the full computational power of your hardware. It accelerates HMMER, Smith Waterman, and ClustalW near linearly on multiple CPUs and multiple cores.

 

 

 

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
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 Visit clcbio.com Visit clcbio.com
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