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VLSISP
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Hardware Acceleration of HMMER on FPGAs
We propose a new parallelization scheme for the hmmsearch function of the HMMER software, in order to target FPGA technology. hmmsearch is a very compute intensive software for bio...
Steven Derrien, Patrice Quinton
WOB
2004
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13 years 9 months ago
Reconfigurable Systems for Sequence Alignment and for General Dynamic Programming
ABSTRACT. Reconfigurable systolic arrays can be adapted to efficiently resolve a wide spectrum of computational problems; parallelism is naturally explored in systolic arrays and r...
Ricardo P. Jacobi, Mauricio Ayala-Rincón, L...
IPPS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
RC-BLAST: Towards a Portable, Cost-Effective Open Source Hardware Implementation
Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) is a standard computer application that molecular biologists use to search for sequence similarity in genomic databases. This report desc...
Krishna Muriki, Keith D. Underwood, Ron Sass
BMCBI
2007
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13 years 7 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
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
ModuleOrganizer: detecting modules in families of transposable elements
Background: Most known eukaryotic genomes contain mobile copied elements called transposable elements. In some species, these elements account for the majority of the genome seque...
Sébastien Tempel, Christine Rousseau, Fariz...