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SAMBA

Systolic Accelerator for Molecular Biological Applications


SAMBA is a 128 processor array for speeding up the comparison of biological sequences. The hardware implements a parameterized version of the Smith and Waterman algorithm allowing the computation of local or global alignments with or without gap penalty.


SAMBA Project Overview

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