Title COMER2: GPU-accelerated sensitive and specific homology searches /
Authors Margelevičius, Mindaugas
DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa185
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Is Part of Bioinformatics.. Oxford : Oxford university press. 2020, vol. 36, iss. 11, p. 3570-3572.. ISSN 1367-4803. eISSN 1460-2059
Keywords [eng] COMER2 ; homology search ; sequence alignment
Abstract [eng] Searching for homology in the vast amount of sequence data has a particular emphasis on its speed. We present a completely rewritten version of the sensitive homology search method COMER based on alignment of protein sequence profiles, which is capable of searching big databases even on a lightweight laptop. By harnessing the power of CUDA-enabled GPUs, it is up to 20 times faster than HHsearch, a state-of-the-art method using vectorized instructions on modern CPUs. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: COMER2 is cross-platform open-source software available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/comer2 and https://github.com/minmarg/comer2. It can be easily installed from source code or using stand-alone installers. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Published Oxford : Oxford university press
Type Journal article
Language English
Publication date 2020
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