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The continually increasing volume of DNA sequence data has resulted in a growing demand for fast implementations of core algorithms. Computation of pairwise alignments between candidate haplotypes and sequencing reads using Pair-HMMs is a…

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With the development of hardware-optimized deployment of spiking neural networks (SNNs), SNN processors based on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have become a research hotspot due to their efficiency and flexibility. However,…

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This paper describes a new asynchronous algorithm and implementation for the problem of k-mer counting (KC), which concerns quantifying the frequency of length k substrings in a DNA sequence. This operation is common to many computational…

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In computational science and data analytics, many workloads involve irregular and sparse computations that are inherently difficult to optimize for modern hardware. A key kernel is Sparse General Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpGEMM), which…

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Background: Short sequence substrings of a fixed length k, called k-mers, are a ubiquitous computational primitive in bioinformatics, used across sequence indexing, read mapping, genome assembly, metagenomic classification, and comparative…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-15 Lucas Czech

K-mer abundance analysis is widely used for many purposes in nucleotide sequence analysis, including data preprocessing for de novo assembly, repeat detection, and sequencing coverage estimation. We present the khmer software package for…

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Kernel methods are powerful tools in statistical learning, but their cubic complexity in the sample size n limits their use on large-scale datasets. In this work, we introduce a scalable framework for kernel regression with O(n log n)…

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We accelerated an ab-initio molecular QMC calculation by using GPGPU. Only the bottle-neck part of the calculation is replaced by CUDA subroutine and performed on GPU. The performance on a (single core CPU + GPU) is compared with that on a…

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We propose Scalable Quantum Molecular Generation (SQMG), a variational quantum-circuit for sampling molecular graphs using chemical priors on atoms and bonds. SQMG assigns a fixed 3-qubit register to each heavy atom and reuses a single…

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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…

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