A Run-Time Reconfigurable System for Gene-Sequence Searching

  • Authors:
  • Kiran Puttegowda;William Worek;Nicholas Pappas;Anusha Dandapani;Peter Athanas;Allan Dickerman

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • VLSID '03 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on VLSI Design
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Advances in the field of bio-technology has led to anever increasing demand for computational resourcesto rapidly search large databases of genetic information.Databases with billions of data elements are routinelycompared and searched for matching and near-matchingpatterns. In this paper we present a systemdeveloped to search DNA sequence data using runtimereconfiguration of Field Programmable Gate Arrays(FPGAs). The system provides an order of magnitudeincrease in performance while reducing hardwarecomplexity when compared to existing commercial systems.