Searching for common patterns on protein sequences by means of a parallel hybrid honey-bee mating optimization algorithm.

•A hybrid (OpenMP/MPI) parallel multiobjective approach based on HBMO is proposed.•We use as benchmark an important bioinformatics problem, the motif discovery problem.•We conduct executions by using different number of cores to a maximum of 128 cores.•Comparisons with parallel biological tools demonstrate the quality of our approach.•Besides good parallel results, it also makes good biological predictions.