By this point you should have gone over the sections concerning Hadoop Setup and a few Hadoop programs. Now you are going to blend these applications by implementing a parallel version of BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool: http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi) using the programming interfaces of the Hadoop MapReduce framework. Note that this application is written in ”Map-Only” fashion, which means no reduce code is necessary
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