The CPU has a copy of the database and the data structures, and, instead of waiting idle for the GPU to parse the entire database, carries out part of the alignment task, thus reducing the total execution time.
RJA assembled the morphological and DNA sequence data matrices (the latter based on an alignment supplied by A. Roca and W. Murphy), designed the web-database, carried out the phylogenetic analyses, and wrote the manuscript.
MG participated in the design of the study, prepared and merged the databases, carried out the statistical analyses, and contributed to drafting the manuscript.
GL and collected documentation and databases, carried out interviews and observations, conducted primary analysis and contributed to draft reports and papers.
Publications included in this review were based mainly on a search of the PubMed and EMBASE databases carried out in December 2010.
YH cloned the sequences of duck and turkey, prepared the sequences from the public databases, carried out the gene conversion analysis, constructed the phylogenetic topology, identified positively selected sites and drafted the manuscript.
On conclusion of the study, the CC unified the information proceeding from the three study levels by comparing the respective databases, carrying out the pertinent corrections and eliminating all duplicates.
Implementation of our database was carried out with a MySQL database system and a Linux environment.
The database was then closed and a professional database manager carried out routine data cleaning.
In the UK a validation study of cancer diagnoses in the general practice research database (GPRD) and of the Cancer Registry (CR) database was carried out [ 10].
