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A DNA Read Alignment Accelerator Based on Computational RAM

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Abstract

Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in the processing-in-memory (PIM) paradigm in computing due to its promise to improve the performance through the reduction of energy-hungry and long-latency memory accesses. Joined with the explosion of data to be processed, produced in genomics-particularly genome sequencing-PIM has become a potential promising candidate for accelerating genomics applications since they do not scale up well in conventional von Neumann systems. In this article, we present an in-memory accelerator architecture for DNA read alignment. This architecture outperforms corresponding software implementation by >49X and >18 000X, in terms of throughput and energy efficiency, respectively, even under conservative assumptions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number9064820
Pages (from-to)80-88
Number of pages9
JournalIEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits
Volume6
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2020

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Keywords

  • Accelerator
  • Arrays
  • BWA
  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational RAM
  • DNA
  • Genome Sequence
  • Genomics
  • Indexes
  • Memory management
  • Processing In Memory
  • SHE-MTJ
  • Sequential analysis

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