FPGA accelerated DNA error correction

Anand Ramachandran, Yun Heo, Wen Mei Hwu, Jian Ma, Deming Chen

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

Abstract

Correcting errors in DNA sequencing data is an important process that can improve the quality of downstream analysis using the data. Even though many error-correction methods have been proposed for Illumina reads, their throughput is not high enough to process data from large genomes. The current paper describes the first FPGA-based error-correction tool, called FPGA Accelerated DNA Error Correction (FADE), which targets to improve the throughput of DNA error correction for Illumina reads. The base algorithm of FADE is BLESS that is highly accurate but slow. A Bloom filter that is the main data structure of BLESS and BLESS' error correction subroutines for different types of errors have been implemented on a FPGA. We compared our design with the software version of BLESS using DNA sequencing data generated from four genomes and we could achieve up to 43 times speedup for the best case, and 36 times speedup on the average.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2015 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1371-1376
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9783981537048
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 22 2015
Event2015 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2015 - Grenoble, France
Duration: Mar 9 2015Mar 13 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings -Design, Automation and Test in Europe, DATE
Volume2015-April
ISSN (Print)1530-1591

Other

Other2015 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2015
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityGrenoble
Period3/9/153/13/15

Keywords

  • Bloom filter
  • DNA
  • FPGA
  • error correction

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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