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INFOSCALE
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Scalable hardware accelerator for comparing DNA and protein sequences
Abstract— Comparing genetic sequences is a well-known problem in bioinformatics. Newly determined sequences are being compared to known sequences stored in databases in order to ...
Philippe Faes, Bram Minnaert, Mark Christiaens, Er...
BMCBI
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
CUDA compatible GPU cards as efficient hardware accelerators for Smith-Waterman sequence alignment
Background: Searching for similarities in protein and DNA databases has become a routine procedure in Molecular Biology. The Smith-Waterman algorithm has been available for more t...
Svetlin Manavski, Giorgio Valle
ARC
2007
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Multiple Sequence Alignment Using Reconfigurable Computing
The alignment of multiple protein (or DNA) sequences is a current problem in Bioinformatics. ClustalW is the most popular heuristic algorithm for multiple sequence alignment. Pairw...
Carlos R. Erig Lima, Heitor S. Lopes, Maiko R. Mor...
BMCBI
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
160-fold acceleration of the Smith-Waterman algorithm using a field programmable gate array (FPGA)
Background: To infer homology and subsequently gene function, the Smith-Waterman (SW) algorithm is used to find the optimal local alignment between two sequences. When searching s...
Isaac T. S. Li, Warren Shum, Kevin Truong
IPPS
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Accelerating error correction in high-throughput short-read DNA sequencing data with CUDA
Emerging DNA sequencing technologies open up exciting new opportunities for genome sequencing by generating read data with a massive throughput. However, produced reads are signif...
Haixiang Shi, Bertil Schmidt, Weiguo Liu, Wolfgang...