Bioinformatics Vol. 16 no. 3 2000
Pages 298-299
© 2000 Oxford University Press
PRoMT: inferring demographic history from DNA sequences
1 Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, 270 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0060, USA
Received on March 28, 1999
; revised on October 4, 1999
; accepted on October 4, 1999
Summary: I describe a parallel implementation of Rogers mismatch algorithm, a method for making inferences about demographic history from DNA sequence data. The program is distributed on clusters of workstations, providing a substantial speedup and low execution times on large numbers of nodes.
Availability: Source code and documentation are available at http://mombasa.anthro.utah.edu/wooding/
Contact: stephen.wooding{at}anthro.utah.edu