Figure 7

Number of queries vs. response time in C. elegans. FASTA-formatted genome sequence databases were either kept locally as an unformatted dataset, distributed within a local IBP node in 20 chunks, or distributed within a non-local IBP network to 1, 5, 10 or 20 nodes. Query time of multiple 500 bp alignments against C. elegans databases demonstrates that as the number of distributed nodes is increased, either in local or non-local systems, there is an overall reduction in query time. Distributed data sets representing 20 nodes shows greater improvement in query time over locally run FASTA algorithms. The average of three iterations is shown.