Bit-parallel multiple pattern matching

Abstract

Text matching with errors is a regular task in computational biology. We present an extension of the bit-parallel Wu-Manber algorithm [16] to combine several searches for a pattern into a collection of fixed-length words. We further present an OpenCL parallelization of a redundant index on massively parallel multicore processors, within a framework of searching for similarities with seed-based heuristics. We successfully implemented and ran our algorithms on GPU and multicore CPU. Some speedups obtained are more than 60×. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.