A shared memory method for enhancing the HTNGH algorithm performance: Proposed method

Muhannad A. Abu-Hashem, Diaa M. Uliyan, Abdelrahman Abuarqoub

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Abstract

In bioinformatics, pair-wise alignment plays a significant role insequence comparison by rating the similarities and distances between protein, DeoxyriboNucleic Acid (DNA), and RiboNucleic Acid (RNA)sequences. Sequence comparison considered as a key stone in building distance matrices.Due to the rapid growth of molecular databases, the need for faster sequence comparison and alignment has become anecessity.High performance computing impacthas increased in the last decade through providing many high performance architectures and tools. In this paper we present a parallel shared memory design for a dynamic programming algorithm named Hash Table-N-Gram-Hirschberg (HT-NGH) an extension of Hashing-N-Gram-Hirschberg (HNGH) and N-Gram-Hirschberg (NGH) algorithm, to speed up the sequence alignment construction process.The focus of the proposed method ison the transformation phase of HT-NGH algorithm since it takes% of HT-NGH overall run time.The experimental evaluation of the proposed parallel designshows an enhancement in the execution time and speedup without sacrificing the accuracy. However,the decomposition method might slightly slowdown the proposed algorithm due to the differences in performance between the processing units.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the International Conference on Future Networks and Distributed Systems, ICFNDS 2017
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)9781450348447
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Jul 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event2017 International Conference on Future Networks and Distributed Systems, ICFNDS 2017 - Cambridge, United Kingdom
Duration: 19 Jul 201720 Jul 2017

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series
VolumePart F130522

Conference

Conference2017 International Conference on Future Networks and Distributed Systems, ICFNDS 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityCambridge
Period19/07/1720/07/17

Keywords

  • Distance
  • High-performance computing
  • Pair-wise alignment
  • Parallel design
  • Sequence alignment
  • Shared-memory

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