Abstract
De novo Assembly is a method in which the genome is constructed using the reads without using reference sequence. It is the only way to construct new genomes. This method is also used when reference genome is available because the construction is unbiased. The genome assembly involves large amounts of data and string comparison and hence takes significant time to execute. In this chapter, we show achieved speedups over software implementations using FPGA-based accelerators .
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Varma, B.S.C., Paul, K., Balakrishnan, M. (2016). FPGA-Based Acceleration of De Novo Genome Assembly. In: Architecture Exploration of FPGA Based Accelerators for BioInformatics Applications. Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics, vol 55. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0591-6_5
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