Bioinformatics

This book is divided into different research areas relevant in Bioinformatics such as biological networks, next generation sequencing, high performance computing, molecular modeling, structural bioinformatics, molecular modeling and intelligent data analysis. Each book section introduces the basic concepts and then explains its application to problems of great relevance, so both novice and expert readers can benefit from the information and research works presented here

Parallel and Distributed Computing

The 14 chapters presented in this book cover a wide variety of representative works ranging from hardware design to application development. Particularly, the topics that are addressed are programmable and reconfigurable devices and systems, dependability of GPUs (General Purpose Units), network topologies, cache coherence protocols, resource allocation, scheduling algorithms, peertopeer networks, largescale network simulation, and parallel routines and algorithms. In this way, the articles included in this book constitute an excellent reference for engineers and researchers who have particular interests in each of these topics in parallel and distributed computing

Implementing Protein Seed-Based Comparison Algorithm on the SGI RASC-100 Platform

This paper describes a parallel FPGA implementation of a genomic sequence comparison algorithm for finding similarities between a large set of protein sequences and full genomes. Results comparable to the tblastn program from the BLAST family are provided while the computation is improved by a factor 19. The performances are mainly due to the parallelization of a critical code section on the SGI RASC-100 accelerator