A special-purpose architecture for solving the breakpoint median problem

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1666-1676

  Bakos, Jason D ^a   Elenis, Panormitis E ^a  

^a The Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Computational biology; Field programmable gate array (FPGA); Phylogenetic reconstruction; Reconfigurable computing

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; LOGIC GATES; REPAIR; RESTORATION;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTATIONALLY EXPENSIVE; COPROCESSOR; FIELD-PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY (FPGA); FIELD-PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; MEDIAN COMPUTATIONS; MEDIAN PROBLEMS; PHYLOGENETIC RECONSTRUCTION; PHYLOGENETIC RECONSTRUCTIONS; PROMISING APPROACHES; RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTING; RECONSTRUCTION PROCEDURES; SPEED-UP;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA);

EID: 56749092988     PISSN: 10638210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2008.2001298     Document Type: Article

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