Title
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 investigate biological functions. In recent years the number of available sequences has increased exponentially. Because of this explosion a speedup in the comparison process is highly required. To meet this demand we implemented a dynamic programming algorithm for sequence alignment on reconfigurable hardware. The algorithm we implemented, Smith-Waterman-Gotoh (SWG) has not been implemented in hardware before. We show a speedup factor of 40 in a design that scales well with the size of the available hardware. We also demonstrate the limits of larger hardware for small problems, and project our design on the largest Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) available today.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1145/1146847.1146880
Infoscale
Keywords
Field
DocType
genetic sequence,biological function,speedup factor,reconfigurable hardware,available sequence,comparison process,scalable hardware accelerator,known sequence,larger hardware,protein sequence,dynamic programming algorithm,available hardware,genetics,hardware accelerator,field programmable gate array,sequence alignment,flows,web services
Dynamic programming,Computer science,Field-programmable gate array,Hardware acceleration,Web service,Scalability,Reconfigurable computing,Speedup,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-59593-428-6
9
0.59
References 
Authors
2
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Philippe Faes1202.43
Bram Minnaert290.59
Mark Christiaens314912.79
Eric Bonnet414810.86
Yvan Saeys5198187.58
dirk stroobandt6833101.36
Yves Van de Peer794789.02