[HTML][HTML] From molecules to genomic variations: Accelerating genome analysis via intelligent algorithms and architectures

M Alser, J Lindegger, C Firtina, N Almadhoun… - Computational and …, 2022 - Elsevier
We now need more than ever to make genome analysis more intelligent. We need to read,
analyze, and interpret our genomes not only quickly, but also accurately and efficiently …

[HTML][HTML] A survey of mapping algorithms in the long-reads era

K Sahlin, T Baudeau, B Cazaux, C Marchet - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
It has been over a decade since the first publication of a method dedicated entirely to
mapping long-reads. The distinctive characteristics of long reads resulted in methods …

Protein-to-genome alignment with miniprot

H Li - Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Protein-to-genome alignment is critical to annotating genes in non-model
organisms. While there are a few tools for this purpose, all of them were developed over 10 …

GenASM: A high-performance, low-power approximate string matching acceleration framework for genome sequence analysis

DS Cali, GS Kalsi, Z Bingöl, C Firtina… - 2020 53rd Annual …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Genome sequence analysis has enabled significant advancements in medical and scientific
areas such as personalized medicine, outbreak tracing, and the understanding of evolution …

GenStore: a high-performance in-storage processing system for genome sequence analysis

N Mansouri Ghiasi, J Park, H Mustafa, J Kim… - Proceedings of the 27th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Read mapping is a fundamental step in many genomics applications. It is used to identify
potential matches and differences between fragments (called reads) of a sequenced …

FPGA-based near-memory acceleration of modern data-intensive applications

G Singh, M Alser, DS Cali, D Diamantopoulos… - IEEE Micro, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern data-intensive applications demand high computational capabilities with strict
power constraints. Unfortunately, such applications suffer from a significant waste of both …

[HTML][HTML] Strobealign: flexible seed size enables ultra-fast and accurate read alignment

K Sahlin - Genome Biology, 2022 - Springer
Read alignment is often the computational bottleneck in analyses. Recently, several
advances have been made on seeding methods for fast sequence comparison. We combine …

Accelerating genome analysis: A primer on an ongoing journey

M Alser, Z Bingöl, DS Cali, J Kim, S Ghose… - IEEE Micro, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Genome analysis fundamentally starts with a process known as read mapping, where
sequenced fragments of an organism's genome are compared against a reference genome …

SeGraM: A universal hardware accelerator for genomic sequence-to-graph and sequence-to-sequence mapping

DS Cali, K Kanellopoulos, J Lindegger… - Proceedings of the 49th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
A critical step of genome sequence analysis is the mapping of sequenced DNA fragments
(ie, reads) collected from an individual to a known linear reference genome sequence (ie …

[HTML][HTML] Lineage abundance estimation for SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater using transcriptome quantification techniques

JA Baaijens, A Zulli, IM Ott, I Nika, MJ van der Lugt… - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Effectively monitoring the spread of SARS-CoV-2 mutants is essential to efforts to counter
the ongoing pandemic. Predicting lineage abundance from wastewater, however, is …