AC-DIAMOND v1: accelerating large-scale DNA-protein alignment.

Mai, Huijun; Zhang, Yifan; Li, Dinghua; Leung, Henry Chi-Ming; Luo, Ruibang; Wong, Chi-Kwong; Ting, Hing-Fung; Lam, Tak-Wah · Bioinformatics · 2018

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

AC-DIAMOND (v1) is a DNA-protein alignment tool designed to tackle the efficiency challenge of aligning large amount of reads or contigs to protein databases. When compared with the previously most efficient method DIAMOND, AC-DIAMOND gains a 6- to 7-fold speed-up, while retaining a similar degree of sensitivity. The improvement is rooted at two aspects: first, using a compressed index of seeds with adaptive-length to speed-up the matching between query and reference sequences; second, adopting a compact form of dynamic programing to fully utilize the parallelism of the SIMD capability. Software source codes and binaries available at https://github.com/Maihj/AC-DIAMOND/. Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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