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DNA Assembly with De Bruijn Graphs Using an FPGA Platform.

Carl Poirier, Benoit Gosselin, Paul Fortier

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

|April 25, 2017

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This study optimized the Ray DNA assembly algorithm for Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), achieving significantly faster execution times and substantial energy savings compared to traditional Central Processing Units (CPUs).

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Area of Science:

Bioinformatics
Computer Engineering
Computational Biology

Background:

The Ray algorithm, a DNA assembly tool, was originally designed for parallel CPUs.
Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) offer potential for accelerated computational tasks.

Purpose of the Study:

To implement and optimize the Ray DNA assembly algorithm on an FPGA.
To evaluate the performance and energy efficiency of the FPGA implementation compared to CPU-based execution.

Main Methods:

Modification and optimization of the original Ray algorithm for FPGA hardware.
Utilization of the OpenCL language for parallelization and hardware adaptation.

Main Results:

The FPGA implementation achieved an execution time approximately one-fourth that of the CPU version.
Factoring in energy consumption, the FPGA implementation demonstrated tenfold energy savings.

Conclusions:

FPGA implementation of the Ray DNA assembly algorithm offers significant speedups and energy efficiency.
Hardware acceleration using FPGAs is a viable approach for computationally intensive bioinformatics tasks like DNA assembly.