Proposal of Smith-Waterman algorithm on FPGA to accelerate the forward and backtracking steps

• Fabio F. de Oliveira ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fabio F. de Oliveira, Leonardo A. Dias, Marcelo A. C. Fernandes

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Machine Learning and Intelligent Instrumentation, nPITI/IMD, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil, Bioinformatics Multidisciplinary Environment (BioME), Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal 59078-970, RN, Brazil

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• Leonardo A. Dias ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fabio F. de Oliveira, Leonardo A. Dias, Marcelo A. C. Fernandes

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Cyber Security and Privacy, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8442-3291

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• Marcelo A. C. Fernandes

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fabio F. de Oliveira, Leonardo A. Dias, Marcelo A. C. Fernandes

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mfernandes@dca.ufrn.br

  Affiliations Laboratory of Machine Learning and Intelligent Instrumentation, nPITI/IMD, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil, Department of Computer and Automation Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil, Bioinformatics Multidisciplinary Environment (BioME), Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal 59078-970, RN, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7536-2506

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