PROSIDIS: a special purpose processor for protein similarity discovery

Abstract

Abstract

RC-BLAST: Towards a Portable, Cost-Effective Open Source Hardware Implementation

“…Earlier some research institutions have explored ways to implement the sequence matching problem on FPGA hardware. A computing and modeling unit in Rome designed a special purpose processor for PROtien SImilarity DIScovery, called PROSIDIS using FPGAs [2]. This design on FPGAs can be used as HW booster for protein analysis algorithms as its operations are not efficiently supported by conventional processors.…”