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State University (Virginia Tech) owns the mpiBLAST software and its
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The parallel input/output (PIO) portion of this work was based in
part on published research that was supported by the North Carolina
State University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The actual
implementation was completed at Virginia Tech in the summer of 2007.

Additionally, portions of this work are derivative works of the NCBI
C Toolkit. Although, the NCBI C Toolkit is released freely without
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ncbi/api/txalign.c
ncbi/corelib/ncbifile.c
ncbi/object/objalign.c
ncbi/tools/blast.c
ncbi/tools/blastdef.h
ncbi/tools/blastool.c
ncbi/tools/blastutl.c
ncbi/tools/blfmtutl.c
ncbi/tools/ncbisam.c
ncbi/tools/readdb.c
ncbi/tools/readdb.h

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