Within the recent years clock rates of modern processors stagnated while the demand for computing power continued to grow. This applied particularly for the fields of life sciences and bioinformatics, where new technologies keep on creating rapidly …
Within the recent years clock rates of modern processors stagnated while the demand for computing power continued to grow. This applied particularly for the fields of life sciences and bioinformatics, where new technologies keep on creating rapidly …
SARUMAN uses a qgram index based filter algorithm followed by a modified Needleman-Wunsch alignment. To speed up the normally time-consuming alignment step all alignments are processed on a NVIDIA graphics card to exploit the massive parallel architecture of new graphics processing units (GPUs).