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From: wrp@krebs.acc.Virginia.EDU (Bill Pearson)
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Subject: Re: Special purpose computer for genes from Applied Biosystems ?
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Date: 13 Jan 90 14:23:35 GMT
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>Has anyone out there heard about a special purpose computer for working
>with genes being developed by the California high tech firm Applied
>Biosystems? If someone knows of this project I would be gratefull to
>receive some information about it.

	Applied Biosystems is apparently working on using a high speed
pattern matching chip developed for the military (?) or National Security
Agency (?) for scanning large databases of text.  Although this chip
has gotten a good deal of publicity, it is not clear that it is either
faster or better than current high-speed algorithms.  

Bill Pearson