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ArticleNucleic acids research2015

High speed BLASTN: an accelerated MegaBLAST search tool.

Ying Chen, Weicai Ye, Yongdong Zhang, Yuesheng Xu

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 444 papers.

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4 authors.

Ying ChenGuangdong Province Key Laboratory of Computational Science, School of Mathematics and Computational Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, P. R. China.
Weicai YeGuangdong Province Key Laboratory of Computational Science, School of Mathematics and Computational Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, P. R. China.
Yongdong ZhangGuangdong Province Key Laboratory of Computational Science, School of Mathematics and Computational Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, P. R. China lnszyd@mail.sysu.edu.cn.
Yuesheng XuGuangdong Province Key Laboratory of Computational Science, School of Mathematics and Computational Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, P. R. China Department of Mathematics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA yxu06@syr.edu.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sequence alignment is a long standing problem in bioinformatics. The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) is one of the most popular and fundamental alignment tools. The explosive growth of biological sequences calls for speedup of sequence alignment tools such as BLAST. To this end, we develop high speed BLASTN (HS-BLASTN), a parallel and fast nucleotide database search tool that accelerates MegaBLAST--the default module of NCBI-BLASTN. HS-BLASTN builds a new lookup table using the FMD-index of the database and employs an accurate and effective seeding method to find short stretches of identities (called seeds) between the query and the database. HS-BLASTN produces the same alignment results as MegaBLAST and its computational speed is much faster than MegaBLAST. Specifically, our experiments conducted on a 12-core server show that HS-BLASTN can be 22 times faster than MegaBLAST and exhibits better parallel performance than MegaBLAST. HS-BLASTN is written in C++ and the related source code is available at https://github.com/chenying2016/queries under the GPLv3 license.

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SoftwareAlgorithmsBase SequenceDatabases, Nucleic AcidGenome, HumanHumansSequence Alignment

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PMID26250111
PMCPMC4652774

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