Faster sequence alignment through GPU-accelerated restriction of the seed-and-extend search space
Richard Wilton, Tamas Budavari, Ben Langmead, Sarah J Wheelan, Steven Salzberg, Alex Szalay
The paper introduces A21, a GPU-accelerated read aligner that improves speed and sensitivity by restricting the seed-and-extend search space using parallel sort and reduction techniques.
bioRxiv · Aug 1, 2014Bioinformatics