DOPA: GPU-based protein alignment using database and memory access optimizations

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p><it>Smith-Waterman (S-W) </it>algorithm is an optimal sequence alignment method for biological databases, but its computational complexity makes it too slow for practical purposes. Heuristics based approximate methods lik...

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Main Authors: Hasan Laiq, Kentie Marijn, Al-Ars Zaid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-07-01
Series:BMC Research Notes
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/4/261