CUDASW++: optimizing Smith-Waterman sequence database searches for CUDA-enabled graphics processing units

2009266 citationsJournal Articlegold Open Access

Authors

Yongchao Liu · Nanyang Technological University

Douglas L. Maskell · Nanyang Technological University

Bertil Schmidt · Nanyang Technological University

Abstract

CUDASW++ is publicly available open-source software. It provides a significant performance improvement for Smith-Waterman-based protein sequence database searches by fully exploiting the compute capability of commonly used CUDA-enabled low-cost GPUs.

Topics & Keywords

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies Algorithms and Data Compression Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Publication Details

Published in: BMC Research Notes

Volume 2, Issue 1, pp. 73-73

DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-73

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