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ArticlePloS one2018

pyPaSWAS: Python-based multi-core CPU and GPU sequence alignment.

Sven Warris, N Roshan N Timal, Marcel Kempenaar, Arne M Poortinga, Henri van de Geest, Ana L Varbanescu, Jan-Peter Nap

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Sven WarrisExpertise Centre ALIFE, Institute for Life Science & Technology, Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-9408-9151
N Roshan N TimalParallel and Distributed Systems, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands.
Marcel KempenaarExpertise Centre ALIFE, Institute for Life Science & Technology, Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Arne M PoortingaExpertise Centre ALIFE, Institute for Life Science & Technology, Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Henri van de GeestApplied Bioinformatics, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
Ana L VarbanescuParallel and Distributed Systems, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands.
Jan-Peter NapExpertise Centre ALIFE, Institute for Life Science & Technology, Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.

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Abstract

backgroundOur previously published CUDA-only application PaSWAS for Smith-Waterman (SW) sequence alignment of any type of sequence on NVIDIA-based GPUs is platform-specific and therefore adopted less than could be. The OpenCL language is supported more widely and allows use on a variety of hardware platforms. Moreover, there is a need to promote the adoption of parallel computing in bioinformatics by making its use and extension more simple through more and better application of high-level languages commonly used in bioinformatics, such as Python.

resultsThe novel application pyPaSWAS presents the parallel SW sequence alignment code fully packed in Python. It is a generic SW implementation running on several hardware platforms with multi-core systems and/or GPUs that provides accurate sequence alignments that also can be inspected for alignment details. Additionally, pyPaSWAS support the affine gap penalty. Python libraries are used for automated system configuration, I/O and logging. This way, the Python environment will stimulate further extension and use of pyPaSWAS.

conclusionspyPaSWAS presents an easy Python-based environment for accurate and retrievable parallel SW sequence alignments on GPUs and multi-core systems. The strategy of integrating Python with high-performance parallel compute languages to create a developer- and user-friendly environment should be considered for other computationally intensive bioinformatics algorithms.

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