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A hybrid CPU-GPU implementation to accelerate multiple pairwise protein sequence alignment

  • Mohammed A. Shehab
  • , Abdullah A. Ghadawi
  • , Luay Alawneh
  • , Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub
  • , Yaser Jararweh
  • Jordan University of Science and Technology
  • Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

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Abstract

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that applies techniques from computer science, statistics and engineering to guide in the study of large biological data. Protein structure and sequence analysis is very important in bioinformatics mainly in understanding cellular processes which helps in simplifying the development of drugs for metabolic pathways. Protein sequence alignment is a technique that is concerned with identifying the similarities among different protein structures in order to discover the relationships among them. These kinds of techniques are computationally extensive which hinders their applicability. In this paper, we propose a parallel approach to speed up the computational time of two sequence alignment algorithms using a hybrid implementation that combines the power of multicore CPUs and that of contemporary GPUs. Our study shows that the hybrid approach solves the problem much faster than its sequential counterpart.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems, ICICS 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages12-17
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781509042432
DOIs
StatePublished - 8 May 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event8th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems, ICICS 2017 - Irbid, Jordan
Duration: 4 Apr 20176 Apr 2017

Publication series

Name2017 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems, ICICS 2017

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems, ICICS 2017
Country/TerritoryJordan
CityIrbid
Period4/04/176/04/17

Keywords

  • Bioinformatics
  • Parallel Programming
  • Performance

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