Title
Low-Power Architectures for miRNA-Target Genome Wide Analysis
Abstract
In molecular biology, the interaction mechanisms between microRNAs (miRNAs) with their messenger RNA targets are poorly understood. This is the reason why many miRNA-target prediction methods are available, but their results are often inconsistent. A lot of efforts focus on the quality of the sequence match between miRNA and target rather than on the role of the mRNA secondary structure in which the target is embedded. Nonetheless, it is known that the miRNA secondary structures contribute to target recognition, because there is an energetic cost to freeing base-pairing interactions within mRNA to make the target accessible for miRNA binding. This approach is implemented by PITA (Probability of Interaction by Target Accessibility), a very computational-intensive tool that is able to provide accurate results even when little is know about the conservation of the miRNA. In this paper we propose a new implementation of PITA, called lPITA, able to exploit a coarse-grained parallelism over low power architectures to reduce both execution times and the power consumption.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/PDP.2017.88
2017 25th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP)
Keywords
Field
DocType
low-power architecture,miRNA,secondary structure,genome wide
Genome,Computer science,microRNA,Theoretical computer science,Exploit,MiRNA binding,Power consumption
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1066-6192
978-1-5090-6059-7
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefano Beretta1279.68
Lucia Morganti2175.02
Elena Corni3103.65
Andrea Ferraro4143.27
Daniele Cesini5309.51
Daniele D'Agostino613023.39
Luciano Milanesi782387.40
Ivan Merelli829435.36