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SAMBA: hardware accelerator for biological sequence comparison

P Guerdoux-Jamet1, D Lavenier

  • 1IRISA, Rennes, France. lavenier@irisa.fr

Computer Applications in the Biosciences : CABIOS
|February 26, 1998
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The Systolic Accelerator for Molecular Biological Applications (SAMBA) is a novel hardware accelerator designed to significantly speed up sequence comparison tasks. This low-cost PCI board offers substantial performance gains for bioinformatics applications on standard computers.

Area of Science:

  • Bioinformatics
  • Computer Architecture
  • Computational Biology

Background:

  • The Systolic Accelerator for Molecular Biological Applications (SAMBA) is a 128-processor hardware accelerator.
  • It aims to accelerate sequence comparison processes for molecular biology.
  • The objective is to offer a cost-effective solution to enhance PC and workstation performance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce SAMBA as a hardware accelerator for molecular biology.
  • To compare SAMBA with existing systems and highlight its unique features.
  • To demonstrate the real-world performance of the SAMBA prototype.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing a 128-processor hardware accelerator architecture.
  • Implementing the Smith and Waterman algorithm for sequence comparison.

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  • Benchmarking performance on large biological databases like SWISS-PROT.

    • Main Results:

    • Achieved rapid sequence comparison, e.g., 300 amino acids against SWISS-PROT-34 in 30 seconds.
    • Reduced computation time for intensive tasks like bank-to-bank comparisons from days to hours.
    • The prototype is designed to fit on a single PCI board for easy integration.

    Conclusions:

    • SAMBA provides a significant performance boost for molecular biology sequence analysis.
    • Its design offers a practical and efficient solution for accelerating bioinformatics workloads.
    • The technology is accessible via a web server for testing and evaluation.