16th International Conference on VLSI Design
A Run-Time Reconfigurable System for Gene-Sequence Searching
New Delhi, India
January 04-January 08
ISBN: 0-7695-1868-0
William Worek, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Peter Athanas, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Advances in the field of bio-technology has led to an ever increasing demand for computational resources to rapidly search large databases of genetic information. Databases with billions of data elements are routinely compared and searched for matching and near-matching patterns. In this paper we present a system developed to search DNA sequence data using runtime reconfiguration of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). The system provides an order of magnitude increase in performance while reducing hardware complexity when compared to existing commercial systems.
Citation:
Kiran Puttegowda, William Worek, Nicholas Pappas, Anusha Dandapani, Peter Athanas, Allan Dickerman, "A Run-Time Reconfigurable System for Gene-Sequence Searching," vlsid, pp.561, 16th International Conference on VLSI Design, 2003