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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…

Motivation: We introduce SneakySnake, a highly parallel and highly accurate pre-alignment filter that remarkably reduces the need for computationally costly sequence alignment. The key idea of SneakySnake is to reduce the approximate string…

Calculating the similarities between a pair of genomic sequences is one of the most fundamental computational steps in genomic analysis. This step -- called sequence alignment -- is the computational bottleneck because: (1) it is…

Genome sequence analysis plays a pivotal role in enabling many medical and scientific advancements in personalized medicine, outbreak tracing, and forensics. However, the analysis of genome sequencing data is currently bottlenecked by the…

Genome sequence analysis has enabled significant advancements in medical and scientific areas such as personalized medicine, outbreak tracing, and the understanding of evolution. Unfortunately, it is currently bottlenecked by the…

Motivation: The ability to generate massive amounts of sequencing data continues to overwhelm the processing capability of existing algorithms and compute infrastructures. In this work, we explore the use of hardware/software co-design and…

The search for similar genetic sequences is one of the main bioinformatics tasks. The genetic sequences data banks are growing exponentially and the searching techniques that use linear time are not capable to do the search in the required…

Aligning millions of short DNA or RNA reads, of 75 to 250 base pairs each, to a reference genome is a significant computation problem in bioinformatics. We present a flexible and fast FPGA-based short read alignment tool. Our aligner makes…

Beagle is a new software framework that enables execution of Genetic Programming tasks on the GPU. Currently available for symbolic regression, it processes individuals of the population and fitness cases for training in a way that…

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…

The choice of crossover and mutation strategies plays a crucial role in the searchability, convergence efficiency and precision of genetic algorithms. In this paper, a novel improved genetic algorithm is proposed by improving the crossover…

Genome sequence alignment is the core of many biological applications. The advancement of sequencing technologies produces a tremendous amount of data, making sequence alignment a critical bottleneck in bioinformatics analysis. The existing…

Genome sequence analysis is a powerful tool in medical and scientific research. Considering the inevitable sequencing errors and genetic variations, approximate string matching (ASM) has been adopted in practice for genome sequencing.…

In this thesis we propose new methods for crossover operator namely: cut on worst gene (COWGC), cut on worst L+R gene (COWLRGC) and Collision Crossovers. And also we propose several types of mutation operator such as: worst gene with random…

Large-scale genomic workflows used in precision medicine can process datasets spanning tens to hundreds of gigabytes per sample, leading to high memory spikes, intensive disk I/O, and task failures due to out-of-memory errors. Simple static…

Motivation: Despite significant advances in Third-Generation Sequencing (TGS) technologies, Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies remain dominant in the current sequencing market. This is due to the lower error rates and richer…

State-of-the-art multiple sequence alignment (MSA) algorithms are based on progressive approaches that rely on pairwise sequence alignment (PSA) to generate guide trees to align all sequences. Given an evidenced explosion in genomic data…

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…

We present the Scalable Nucleotide Alignment Program (SNAP), a new short and long read aligner that is both more accurate (i.e., aligns more reads with fewer errors) and 10-100x faster than state-of-the-art tools such as BWA. Unlike recent…

Genetic algorithms are highly effective optimization techniques for many computationally challenging problems, including combinatorial optimization tasks like portfolio optimization. Quantum computing has also shown potential in addressing…