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ArticleNature methods2025

GPU-accelerated homology search with MMseqs2.

Felix Kallenborn, Alejandro Chacon, Christian Hundt, Hassan Sirelkhatim, Kieran Didi, Sooyoung Cha, Christian Dallago, Milot Mirdita, Bertil Schmidt, Martin Steinegger

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Article in Nature methods, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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Felix Kallenborn *Department of Computer Science, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4516-6357
Alejandro Chacon *NVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
Christian HundtNVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
Hassan SirelkhatimNVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0005-0944-3005
Kieran DidiNVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
Sooyoung ChaSchool of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7211-4603
Christian DallagoNVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA, USA. cdallago@nvidia.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4650-6181
Milot MirditaSchool of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. mmirdit@snu.ac.kr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8637-6719
Bertil SchmidtDepartment of Computer Science, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany. bertil.schmidt@uni-mainz.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2597-8331
Martin SteineggerSchool of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. martin.steinegger@snu.ac.kr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8781-9753

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) 439669440 TRR319 RMaP TP C01National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) 2020M3-A9G7-103933National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) 2021-M3A9-I4021220National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) 2021-R1C1-C102065National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) RS-2023-00250470National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) RS-2024-00396026Novo Nordisk Fonden (Novo Nordisk Foundation) NNF24SA0092560Samsung Creative-Pioneering Researchers Program
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rapidly growing protein databases demand faster sensitive search tools. Here the graphics processing unit (GPU)-accelerated MMseqs2 delivers 6× faster single-protein searches than CPU methods on 2 × 64 cores, speeds previously requiring large protein batches. For larger query batches, it is the most cost-effective solution, outperforming the fastest alternative method by 2.4-fold with eight GPUs. It accelerates protein structure prediction with ColabFold 31.8× over the standard AlphaFold2 pipeline and protein structure search with Foldseek by 4-27×. MMseqs2-GPU is available under an open-source license at https://mmseqs.com/ .

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Computational BiologyComputer GraphicsProteinsSoftwareAlgorithmsDatabases, ProteinProtein ConformationProteins

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