A highly parameterized and efficient FPGA-Based skeleton for pairwise biological sequence alignment

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 561-570

  Benkrid, Khaled ^a   Liu, Ying ^a   Benkrid, Abdsamad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biological sequence alignment; Field programmable gate array (FPGA); Handel C; Needleman Wunsch; Smith Waterman; Xilinx Virtex II

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ALIGNMENT; CODES (SYMBOLS); DNA SEQUENCES; HARDWARE; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; LOGIC GATES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PIPELINES; RNA;

BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; FIELD-PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY (FPGA); HANDEL-C; NEEDLEMAN-WUNSCH; SMITH-WATERMAN; XILINX VIRTEX-II;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA);

EID: 62949120447     PISSN: 10638210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2008.2005314     Document Type: Article

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