Parallel Implementations of Local Sequence Alignment: Hardware and Software

Abstract

With the progress in computer science and raw computational power available today, human quest to learn and understand the complex relationships within the subsets of biology, e.g., biological response, biodiversity, genetics, medicine, etc. has got a new promise. Computational Biology represents the marriage of computer science and biology, and spans may disciplines, such as bioinformatics (genomics and post-genomics), clinical informatics, medical imaging, bioengineering, etc. It finds application in many areas of life science, e.g., the development of human therapeutics, diagnostics, pyrognostics and forensics, up through the simulation of large entities such as populations and ecosystems. Genomics is the determination of the entire DNA sequence of an organism. The goal of modern human genomics is preventive, predictive, and individualized medicine. In agriculture, the goal is the production of foods with improved production characteristics and, increasingly beneficial consumer traits. Post-genomics refers to the biological processes that follow from DNA sequence(e.g. transciptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, etc.).

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• Wayne State University US
• St. Francis Xavier University CA
• Troy University US

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