Bioinformatics is an emerging field with seemingly limitless possibilities for advances in
numerous areas of research and applications. We propose a scalable FPGA-based solution …

Motivation: The growth of next-generation sequencing (NGS) has not only dramatically
accelerated the pace of research in the field of genomics, but it has also opened the door to …

Genetic sequence alignment has always been a computational challenge in bioinformatics.
Depending on the problem size, software-based aligners can take multiple CPU-days to …

The newest generation of sequencing instruments, such as Illumina/Solexa Genome
Analyzer and ABI SOLiD, can generate hundreds of millions of short DNA “reads” from a …

The maximum flow problem is a fundamental graph theory problem with many important
applications. Max-flow algorithms based on the push-relabel method are known to have …

Techniques are provided for data filtering using hardware accelerators. An apparatus
comprises a processor, a memory and a plurality of hardware accelerators. The processor is …

Stream processing has become extremely popular for analyzing huge volumes of data for a
variety of applications, including IoT, social networks, retail, and software logs analysis …

Genomics computing is indispensable in basic medical research as well as in practical
applications such as disease prevention, pharmaceutical development, and criminal …

This paper aims in evaluating the efficiency of magnetic stimulators capable of stimulating
neural tracts of the spinal cord in healthy subjects. Our previous preliminary tests had shown …

Techniques are provided for data filtering using hardware accelerators. An apparatus
comprises a processor, a memory and a plurality of hardware accelerators. The processor is …