Dedicated Hardware for Biological Sequence Comparison
Dominique LAVENIER
Journal of Universal Computer Science - vol 2, No 2, feb 1996
Abstract
Biological sequence comparison is a time consuming task
on a Von Neuman computer. The addition of dedicated hardware
for parallelizing the comparison algorithms results in a reduction of several
orders of magnitude in the execution time. This paper presents
and compares different dedicated approaches, based on the parallelization
of the algorithms on linear arrays of processors.