JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 2(2): 77-86, doi: 10.3217/jucs-002-02-0077
Dedicated Hardware for Biological Sequence Comparison
expand article infoDominique Lavenier‡
‡ IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, France

Corresponding author: Dominique Lavenier ( lavenier@irisa.fr )

© Dominique Lavenier.
This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.
Citation: Lavenier D (1996) Dedicated Hardware for Biological Sequence Comparison. JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 2(2): 77-86. https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-002-02-0077
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Abstract
Biological sequence comparison is a time consuming task on a Von Neuman computer. The addition of dedicated hardware for parallelizing the comparison algorithms results in a reduction of several orders of magnitude in the execution time. This paper presents and compares different dedicated approaches, based on the parallelization of the algorithms on linear arrays of processors.
Keywords
Hardware, Biological Sequence Comparison, DNA, FPGA, VLSI