Title
Families of FPGA-Based Accelerators for BLAST Algorithm with Multi-seeds Detection and Parallel Extension
Abstract
As one of the most widely used bio-sequence searching tools, BLAST adopts index-based approach to detect the matches between two substrings by looking up a large table and processing one match per query. In this paper, we propose a systolic array approach to detect string matches without using looking up tables. The pipelining systolic array is implemented as a multi-seeds detection and parallel extension pipeline engine to accelerate the first two stages of NCBI BLAST family algorithms. Different from the index-based approach, our implementation consumes little memory resources and eliminates redundant string extensions by merging multiple adjoin seeds into a valid seed. Our FPGA implementation achieves superior performance results in both of processing element number and clock frequency over related works in the area of FPGA BLAST accelerators. The experimental results also show the speedup can reach about 17, 48, 14, 71 and 10 compared to the NCBI BLASTp, TBLASTn, BLASTx, TBLASTx and BLASTn programs for 3072-residue queries on Intel P4 CPU, respectively. Furthermore, the idea of multi-seeds detection also can be adopted in other seed-based heuristic searching applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-540-70600-7_4
BIOINFORMATICS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, PROCEEDINGS
Keywords
Field
DocType
look up table,string matching,heuristic search,indexation,systolic array
Pipeline (computing),Substring,Heuristic,Computer science,Parallel computing,Field-programmable gate array,Algorithm,Systolic array,Merge (version control),Clock rate,Speedup
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
13
1865-0929
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.62
19
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fei Xia1625.01
Yong Dou263289.67
Jiaqing Xu3576.44