Reconfigurable Acceleration of Genomic Data Processing

  • Wayne Luk | Imperial College London

This talk presents recent advances in speeding up the processing of genomic data, making use of reconfigurable data flow engines based on field programmable gate arrays. Our design involves the FM-index technique and exploits the reconfigurability of field-programmable technology. Applications include speeding up time-consuming tasks such as bisulfite sequence alignment for prenatal and cancer diagnosis, and reference-based compression of genomic data. The potential of this approach will be summarized.

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