{"id":55958,"date":"2009-11-13T11:32:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T11:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/pfxteam\/2009\/11\/13\/microsoft-biology-foundation-now-using-parallel-extensions\/"},"modified":"2009-11-13T11:32:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T11:32:14","slug":"microsoft-biology-foundation-now-using-parallel-extensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/microsoft-biology-foundation-now-using-parallel-extensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Biology Foundation now using Parallel Extensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Microsoft Biology Initiative (MBI) is a combined project in Microsoft Research focused on two components: the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/collaboration\/tools\/mbf.aspx\">Microsoft Biology Foundation<\/a> (MBF) and the Microsoft Biology Tools (MBT).&nbsp; Both the framework and the tools are related to the areas of computation biology, genomics, and bioinformatics. MBF is a language-neutral bioinformatics toolkit built as an extension to the Microsoft .NET Framework. Currently it implements a range of parsers for common bioinformatics file formats; a range of algorithms for manipulating DNA, RNA, and protein sequences; and a set of connectors to biological Web services such as NCBI BLAST.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Research has released <a href=\"https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/BIO\">Beta 1<\/a> of MBF, including a version that runs on .NET 4 Beta 2 and that&rsquo;s using Parallel Extensions to provide impressive speedups on some new algorithms that have been added in the release.&nbsp; From the release notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;<strong>Support for .NET Parallel Extensions.<\/strong>&nbsp; In addition to the complete Beta 1 version of the project being released, we are also providing the Beta 1 &#8211; Dev10 Preview release.&nbsp; This version of the code and binaries are utilizing the latest in technology improvements in the .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 release.&nbsp; The inclusion of a novel multiple sequence alignment algorithm, PAMSAM, provided as an example of how this technology can be used to turn a commodity desktop computer into a valuable research asset.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&rsquo;re interested in bioinformatics, definitely check this out.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Microsoft Biology Initiative (MBI) is a combined project in Microsoft Research focused on two components: the Microsoft Biology Foundation (MBF) and the Microsoft Biology Tools (MBT).&nbsp; Both the framework and the tools are related to the areas of computation biology, genomics, and bioinformatics. MBF is a language-neutral bioinformatics toolkit built as an extension to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":58792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7908],"tags":[7909],"class_list":["post-55958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pfxteam","tag-parallel-extensions"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The Microsoft Biology Initiative (MBI) is a combined project in Microsoft Research focused on two components: the Microsoft Biology Foundation (MBF) and the Microsoft Biology Tools (MBT).&nbsp; Both the framework and the tools are related to the areas of computation biology, genomics, and bioinformatics. MBF is a language-neutral bioinformatics toolkit built as an extension to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}