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CUSHAW: a CUDA compatible short read aligner to large genomes based on the Burrows–Wheeler transform
Author(s) -
Yongchao Liu,
Bertil Schmidt,
Douglas L. Maskell
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts276
Subject(s) - cuda , computer science , parallel computing , graphics , graphics processing unit , general purpose computing on graphics processing units , exploit , speedup , reference genome , genome , computer graphics (images) , biochemistry , computer security , gene , chemistry
New high-throughput sequencing technologies have promoted the production of short reads with dramatically low unit cost. The explosive growth of short read datasets poses a challenge to the mapping of short reads to reference genomes, such as the human genome, in terms of alignment quality and execution speed.

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