Thursday, February 7, 2002

Apple/Genentech BLAST Apple today announced a breakthrough implementation of BLAST software that accelerates protein and DNA searches used in biomedical research and drug discovery. Apple/Genentech BLAST is up to five times faster than the standard BLAST implementation, the popular bioinformatics tool from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Apple/Genentech BLAST provides improved accuracy and speed over the standard NCBI BLAST, depending on search parameters such as the nucleotide match-length. For certain common searches this version enables a dual 1-GHz Power Mac G4 computer to deliver more than five times the performance of a comparable 2-GHz Pentium 4-based system running the standard NCBI BLAST. 10:09:46 PM

When PC Still Means 'Punch Card'. Usually thought of as cultural relics, punch cards are still consumed by the millions in everything from payroll systems to betting slips and, of course, voting machines. [The New York Times: Technology] 2:01:14 PM

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