ArticleBMC bioinformatics2026
DREAM-Stellar: parallel and space efficient exact local alignment.
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backgroundSearching large genomic data sets for local alignments poses a computational challenge. A particular obstacle is the handling of repetitive sequences that appear in various contexts and incur a high runtime cost. For practical homology search, it is important to develop a specific but sensitive filter. Good filters reduce the search space before alignment without missing significant matches.
resultsWe introduce DREAM-Stellar, a parallelized, updated version of the pairwise local aligner Stellar. The new aligner, DREAM-Stellar, is composed of four steps: preprocessing the queries and references, building a data structure for distributing the queries, computing in parallel the results and finally combining them. For distributing the queries we use the IBF data structure and a new prefilter for local alignments. We present our comparison of five local aligners on simulated and real genomic data and conclude that heuristic tools like BLAST miss a large percentage of significant local alignments or "drown" them in millions of less significant matches. This new version of Stellar is up to 900 times faster on 32 parallel threads than its single-threaded predecessor and can find all alignments between a pair of genomes in minutes. With that, the runtime of DREAM-Stellar is on par with tools like BLAST etc.
conclusionsDREAM-Stellar is very practical and fast on very long sequences which makes it a suitable new tool for finding local alignments between genomic sequences under the edit distance model. The software is freely available for Linux and Mac OS X at https://github.com/seqan/dream-stellar
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