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MMseqs2 (Many-against-Many sequence searching) is a software suite to search and cluster huge protein and nucleotide sequence sets. MMseqs2 is free and open source software implemented in C++ for Linux, MacOS, and (as beta version, via cygwin) Windows. The software is designed to run on multiple cores and servers and exhibits very good scalability. MMseqs2 can run 10000 times faster than BLAST. At 100 times its speed it achieves almost the same sensitivity. It can perform profile searches with the same sensitivity as PSI-BLAST at over 400 times its speed.
I was just remembering using BLAST to discover anti-spam rulesets the other day! If I was still working on rule discovery for SpamAssassin these days, this would be very nifty tech. (via James McInerney)
Tags: mmseq sequences bioinformatics algorithms oss blast discovery search fuzzy-matching rules antispam