Research Article

Developing eThread Pipeline Using SAGA-Pilot Abstraction for Large-Scale Structural Bioinformatics

Table 1

Threading tools incorporated in eThread and their workflow structures. For the categorization of computational loads and memory requirement, see the text.

Program name (version)Number of subtasksPrerequisiteComputational loadMemory requirement

THREADER (3.5)4PSIPRED (3.2.1), BLAST (2.2.5)HighestLow
SAM-T2K (3.5)9BLASTHighHigh
HHpred (2.0)7BLASTHighMedium
CS/CSI-BLAST (2.1.0)4LowLow
COMPASS (3.1)7BLASTHighHigh
pfTools (2.3.4)4MediumLow
pGenTHREADER (8.9)4BLASTHighLow
HMMER (3.1.b1)4LowLow
SPARKS (20050315)4BLASTHighMedium
SP3 (20050315)4BLASTHighMedium