• DocumentCode
    3003120
  • Title

    Hardware implementation of the Smith-Waterman Algorithm using Recursive Variable Expansion

  • Author

    Hasan, Laiq ; Al-Ars, Zaid ; Nawaz, Zubair ; Bertels, Koen

  • Author_Institution
    Comput. Eng. Lab., Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    20-22 Dec. 2008
  • Firstpage
    135
  • Lastpage
    140
  • Abstract
    In this paper we adapted a novel approach for accelerating the Smith-Waterman (S-W) algorithm using Recursive Variable Expansion (RVE), which exposes extra parallelism in the algorithm, as compared to any other technique. The results demonstrate that applying the recursive variable expansion technique speeds up the performance by a factor of 1.36 to 1.41, as compared to traditional acceleration approaches at the cost of using 1.25 to 1.28 times more hardware resources.
  • Keywords
    bioinformatics; field programmable gate arrays; parallel algorithms; FPGA; Smith-Waterman algorithm; bioinformatics; hardware implementation; hardware resources; recursive variable expansion; Acceleration; Concurrent computing; Costs; Equations; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Laboratories; Parallel processing; Sequences; Systolic arrays; FPGA; Recursive Variable Expansion; Sequence Alignment; Smith-Waterman Algorithm; Systolic Array;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Design and Test Workshop, 2008. IDT 2008. 3rd International
  • Conference_Location
    Monastir
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3479-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3478-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IDT.2008.4802483
  • Filename
    4802483