Parallel genomic alignments on the cell broadband engine

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1600-1610

  Sarje, Abhinav ^a   Aluru, Srinivas ^a,b  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Biology and genetics; Parallel algorithms; Pattern matching

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT ALGORITHMS; ALIGNMENT TECHNIQUE; BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; BIOLOGY AND GENETICS; BLADE SYSTEMS; CELL BROADBAND ENGINE; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA-LEVEL PARALLELISM; EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS; FUNDAMENTAL TOOLS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOMIC SEQUENCE; GLOBAL/LOCAL; HETEROGENEOUS MULTICORE; LINEAR SPACES; OPTIMAL ALIGNMENTS; PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS; PROCESSING ELEMENTS; SPLICED ALIGNMENT;

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; CELL MEMBRANES; CHROMOSOMES; COMPUTER SCIENCE; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PATTERN MATCHING;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 70350050874     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2008.254     Document Type: Article

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