SC10: Microsoft Blast clouds platform with bio-software

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On November 16, Microsoft announced on SC10 that it would deploy NCBI BLAST on Windows Azure Cloud. The move is expected to help the vast majority of scientists in biological science, the desktop computing resources and cloud computing resources to integrate. Microsoft demonstrated this application at the Conference, and conducted 100 billion protein sequence alignment in a database administered by the National Biotechnology Information Center (NCBI). In the past, scientists had only been able to do this experiment in large laboratories, but now rely on the PAAs services provided by Windows Azure to leverage cloud computing resources. In addition, researchers from bioinformatics, energy, drug research and other fields can use Blast (Basic local Alignment Search Tool) software to screen large databases to identify new species, improve drug effects, produce biofuels and other applications.