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Motivation: A pan-genome graph represents a collection of genomes and encodes sequence variations between them. It is a powerful data structure for studying multiple similar genomes. Sequence-to-graph alignment is an essential step for the…
Summary: The Smith Waterman (SW) algorithm, which produces the optimal pairwise alignment between two sequences, is frequently used as a key component of fast heuristic read mapping and variation detection tools, but current implementations…
With the advance in genome sequencing technology, the lengths of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequencing results are rapidly increasing at lower prices than ever. However, the longer lengths come at the cost of a heavy computational burden…
Sequence alignment is a cornerstone of bioinformatics, widely used to identify similarities between DNA, RNA, and protein sequences and studying evolutionary relationships and functional properties. The Needleman-Wunsch algorithm remains a…
We improve on GenASM, a recent algorithm for genomic sequence alignment, by significantly reducing its memory footprint and bandwidth requirement. Our algorithmic improvements reduce the memory footprint by 24$\times$ and the number of…
The well-known Smith-Waterman (SW) algorithm is the most commonly used method for local sequence alignments. However, SW is very computationally demanding for large protein databases. There exist several implementations that take advantage…
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology are two fields that have been exploiting GPUs for more than two decades, being CUDA the most used programming language for them. However, as CUDA is an NVIDIA proprietary language, it implies a…
Programs based on hash tables and Burrows-Wheeler are very fast for mapping short reads to genomes but have low accuracy in the presence of mismatches and gaps. Such reads can be aligned accurately with the Smith-Waterman algorithm but it…
Sequence alignment is a fundamental process in computational biology which identifies regions of similarity in biological sequences. With the exponential growth in the volume of data in bioinformatics databases, the time, processing power,…
Sequence alignment forms an important backbone in many sequencing applications. A commonly used strategy for sequence alignment is an approximate string matching with a two-dimensional dynamic programming approach. Although some prior work…
Computational Pangenomics is an emerging field that studies genetic variation using a graph structure encompassing multiple genomes. Visualizing pangenome graphs is vital for understanding genome diversity. Yet, handling large graphs can be…
Early hardware limitations of GPU (lack of synchronization primitives and limited memory caching mechanisms) can make GPU-based computation inefficient. Now Bio-technologies bring more chances to Bioinformatics and Biological Engineering.…
Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming (GSGP) is a state-of-the-art machine learning method based on evolutionary computation. GSGP performs search operations directly at the level of program semantics, which can be done more efficiently…
A parallel genetic algorithm (GA) implemented on GPU clusters is proposed to solve the Uncapacitated Single Allocation p-Hub Median problem. The GA uses binary and integer encoding and genetic operators adapted to this problem. Our GA is…
In this work we propose a highly optimized version of a simulated annealing (SA) algorithm adapted to the more recently developed Graphic Processor Units (GPUs). The programming has been carried out with CUDA toolkit, specially designed for…
In the context of the genome-wide association studies (GWAS), one has to solve long sequences of generalized least-squares problems; such a task has two limiting factors: execution time --often in the range of days or weeks-- and data…
A novel processing-in-storage (PRinS) architecture based on Resistive CAM (ReCAM) is described and proposed for Smith-Waterman (S-W) sequence alignment. The ReCAM massively-parallel compare operation finds matching base-pairs in a fixed…
A major bottleneck in scenario-based Sample Average Approximation (SAA) for stochastic programming (SP) is the cost of solving an exact second-stage problem for every scenario, especially when each scenario contains an NP-hard combinatorial…
The p-median problem is a well-known NP-hard problem. Many heuristics have been proposed in the literature for this problem. In this paper, we exploit a GPGPU parallel computing platform to present a new genetic algorithm implemented in…
When simulating a lattice system near its critical temperature, local algorithms for modeling the system's evolution can introduce very large autocorrelation times into sampled data. This critical slowing down places restrictions on the…