{"id":8853,"date":"2007-06-27T00:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T04:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/27\/clustal-w-vs-mac-pro\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:35:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:35:45","slug":"clustal-w-vs-mac-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/27\/clustal-w-vs-mac-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"CLUSTAL W vs. Mac Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/clustalw_4jobs.png\" height=844 width=570><br \/>Four CLUSTAL W Jobs<\/center><\/p>\n<p>In order to help Danielle out with something I currently have four scripts running, each running six sequential <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/clustalw\/\">CLUSTAL W<\/a> jobs doing DNA sequence alignment on 500-some sequences. Each core in my Mac Pro (quad core 2.6 GHz Xeon) is chewing away at data, and each of those individual jobs should take around 40 minutes each.<\/p>\n<p>This is v1.81, compiled as an Intel binary with GCC i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 earlier today. I was going to use the pre-compiled fat binary v1.83 version made available <a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.ebi.ac.uk\/pub\/software\/unix\/clustalw_macosx\">here<\/a>, but Danielle had originally been running this all on her slow(er) XP laptop with v1.81, and I didn&#8217;t want to risk any versioning problems.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the data will prove to be useful tomorrow. I hope.<\/p>\n<p>If it does, I might have to run more. That&#8217;s okay, at least the Mac Pro is finally getting a workout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four CLUSTAL W Jobs In order to help Danielle out with something I currently have four scripts running, each running six sequential CLUSTAL W jobs doing DNA sequence alignment on 500-some sequences. Each core in my Mac Pro (quad core 2.6 GHz Xeon) is chewing away at data, and each of those individual jobs should\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12777,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853\/revisions\/12777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}