The advancements of computational and informational techniques have enabled in silico testing of many lab-based experiments in life sciences before performing them in in vitro or in vivo. Though computational techniques are not capable of mimicking all wet-lab experiments, bioinformatics will inevitably play a major role in future medical practice. For example, in the pursuit of new drugs it can reduce the costs and complexity involved in expensive wet-lab experiments. It is expected that by 2010, sequencing of individual genomes will be affordable generating an unprecedented increase of life...

Introducing parallel architectures, their corresponding programming paradigms and their bioinformatics application, this title provides background on sequential bioinformatics algorithms and parallel architectures such as multi-cores, cell B.E., GPUs and FPGAs.