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    160-fold acceleration of the Smith-Waterman algorithm using a field programmable gate array (FPGA)

    To infer homology and subsequently gene function, the Smith-Waterman (SW) algorithm is used to find the optimal local alignment between two sequences. When searching sequence databases that may contain hundred...

    Isaac TS Li, Warren Shum, Kevin Truong in BMC Bioinformatics (2007)