CBESW: Sequence Alignment on the Playstation 3

Background: The exponential growth of available biological data has caused bioinformatics to be rapidly moving towards a data-intensive, computational science. As a result, the computational power needed by bioinformatics applications is growing exponentially as well. The recent emergence of accelerator technologies has made it possible to achieve an excellent improvement in execution time for many bioinformatics applications, compared to current general-purpose platforms. In this paper, we demonstrate how the PlayStation

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: Adrianto Wirawan, Chee Keong Kwoh, Nim Tri Hieu, Bertil Schmidt
• Keywords: Available Biological Data, Bioinformatics Applications, BMCBI 2008, Current General-purpose Platforms