The MinION is a recent-to-market handheld nanopore sequencer. It can be used to
determine the whole genome of a target virus in a biological sample. Its Read Until feature …

Classified as a complex big data analytics problem, DNA short read alignment serves as a
major sequential bottleneck to massive amounts of data generated by next-generation …

The MinION is a revolutionary handheld DNA sequencer that is inexpensive, portable, and
can perform real-time sequencing. MinION is increasingly used in Precision Medicine …

Genome analysis is becoming more important in the fields of forensic science, medicine,
and history. Sequencing technologies such as High Throughput Sequencing (HTS) and …

Genome sequences contain hundreds of millions of DNA base pairs. Finding the degree of
similarity between two genomes requires executing a compute-intensive dynamic …

Genomics is the key to enable the personal customization of medical care. How to fast and
energy-efficiently analyze the huge amounts of genomic sequence data generated by next …

In this paper, we propose a high-throughput and energy-efficient Processing-in-Memory
accelerator (PIM-Aligner) to execute DNA short read alignment based on an optimized and …

Genomics is the critical key to enabling precision medicine, ensuring global food security
and enforcing wildlife conservation. The massive genomic data produced by various …

In this work, we review two alternative Processing-in-Memory (PIM) accelerators based on
Spin-Orbit-Torque Magnetic Random Access Memory (SOT-MRAM) to execute DNA short …

Over the past decades, the amount of data required to be processed and analyzed by
computing systems has been increasing dramatically to exascale (10 18 bytes/s or ops) …