High speed biological sequence analysis with hidden Markov models on reconfigurable platforms

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 740-746

  Oliver, Timothy F ^a   Schmidt, Bertil ^a   Jakop, Yanto ^a   Maskell, Douglas L ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Biomedical engineering; Computer architectures; Database; Dynamic programming (DP); Markov models; Parallel processing; Search; Sequences

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; MARKOV MODELS; PARALLEL PROCESSING; SEARCH; SEQUENCES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTERS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC POSITIONING; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); MODELS; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MARKOV CHAINS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 70349507973     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2007.904632     Document Type: Article

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