SLIM Down Your Blast, Fast

Sep 01, 2006

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By Jennifer Crebs

The prospect is ridiculously attractive: Imagine running a fully optimized Blast search at a rate 10,000 times faster than its usual lumbering stride, without souping up your machine with specialized hardware. That’s exactly what Leonard Bloksberg aims to provide with his company’s latest technology, SLIM Search.

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