2 papers
cs.DC2014
MICA: A fast short-read aligner that takes full advantage of Intel Many Integrated Core Architecture (MIC)
Sze-Hang Chan, Jeanno Cheung, Edward Wu +6
Background: Short-read aligners have recently gained a lot of speed by exploiting the massive parallelism of GPU. An uprising alternative to GPU is Intel MIC; supercomputers like T…
q-bio.GN2013
SOAP3-dp: Fast, Accurate and Sensitive GPU-based Short Read Aligner
Ruibang Luo, Thomas Wong, Jianqiao Zhu +12
To tackle the exponentially increasing throughput of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS), most of the existing short-read aligners can be configured to favor speed in trade of accurac…