PROJECT TITLE :

Accelerating Bioinformatics applications via emerging parallel computing systems

ABSTRACT:

The papers in this issue specialise in advanced parallel computing systems for bioinformatics applications. This papers offer a forum to publish recent advances in the advance of handling bioinformatics problems on emerging parallel computing systems. These systems can be characterised by exploiting different sorts of parallelism, as well as fine-grained versus coarse-grained and thread-level parallelism versus datalevel parallelism versus request-level parallelism. Hence, parallel computing systems based on multi- and many-core CPUs, several-core GPUs, vector processors, or FPGAs provide the promise to massively accelerate many bioinformatics algorithms and applications, ranging from computeintensive to data-intensive. Such computing systems are increasingly ubiquitous, starting from ???huge iron??? datacenter supercomputers and datacenter Cloud Computing down to GPU-accelerated smartphones and laptops.