Open AccessH-BLAST: a fast protein sequence alignment toolkit on heterogeneous computers with GPUs
Author(s) -
Weicai Ye,
Ying Chen,
Yongdong Zhang,
Yuesheng Xu
Publication year - 2016
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/btw769
Subject(s) - computer science , parallel computing , speedup , sequence (biology) , sequence alignment , cuda , computational science , peptide sequence , biology , biochemistry , genetics , gene
The sequence alignment is a fundamental problem in bioinformatics. BLAST is a routinely used tool for this purpose with over 118 000 citations in the past two decades. As the size of bio-sequence databases grows exponentially, the computational speed of alignment softwares must be improved.
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