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Application of field programmable gate arrays to eliminate bottlenecks in near-instrument proteomics

Reference	BBS/B/16402
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Robert Beynon
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor Daniel Coca
Institution	University of Liverpool
Department	Veterinary Preclinical Science
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	230,130
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	15/11/2004
End date	14/11/2007
Duration	36 months

Abstract

This project aims to set up a high-performance reconfigurable computing node for high-throughput protein identification and to develop proteomics-specific software tools and algorithms that exploit the features of this architecture. A key feature of the computational platform is the ability to perform computations in hardware which exploit algorithm and instruction parallelism. This leads to significant increases in performance, while retaining much of the flexibility of a software solution. The main challenges relate to redesigning, partitioning and mapping the protein identification algorithms on the reconfigurable hardware. A single reconfigurable node, which can be part of a heterogeneous grid, can deliver performance capabilities in excess of 10 GFLOPS. The proposed solution will dramatically enhance the efficiency of the proteomics related algorithms.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Biomolecular Sciences (BMS)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	Bioinformatics and E Science Programme II (BEP2) [2003-2004]
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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