Figure 1
From: NFU-Enabled FASTA: moving bioinformatics applications onto wide area networks
High level schema of NFU-enabled FASTA. The burden of database maintenance and distribution within the IBP network is handled by the server using the LoRS upload tool and associated XND files to catalog distributed database location and replicate. Following a request for execution, the server retrieves the query file from the client and uploads the query file and modified FASTA executable onto NFU-enabled storage depots where the appropriate database chunks reside. The FASTA results are download directly from the network, modified if necessary, and returned to the client.