Title :
GPU Based Parallel Computing on Blast Program
Author :
Lican, Huang ; Ya, Hu
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Inf. & Electron., Zhejiang Sci-Tech Univ., Hangzhou, China
Abstract :
Sequence alignment is one of the most fundamental and important operation in Bioinformatics. Among lots of Sequence alignment tools, Blast is one of the most popular algorithms. In this paper, we describe the primary strategy of a GPU-based parallel computing on Blast program.
Keywords :
bioinformatics; computer graphic equipment; coprocessors; parallel processing; sequences; GPU based parallel computing; bioinformatics operation; blast program; sequence alignment; Bioinformatics; Biology; Distributed databases; Graphics processing unit; Heuristic algorithms; Informatics; Parallel processing; Blast program; GPU; parallel computing;
Conference_Titel :
Networking and Distributed Computing (ICNDC), 2010 First International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hangzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8382-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICNDC.2010.78
