Many algorithms in the field of evolutionary Bioinformatics have excessive computational requirements. This dissertation presents new reconfigurable architectures to accelerate parsimony- and likelihood-based phylogenetic tree reconstruction, as well as effective techniques to speed up the execution of a phylogeny-aware alignment kernel on general-purpose graphics processing units. It also introduces a novel technique to conduct efficient phylogenetic tree searches on alignments with missing data. In addition, a highly optimized software implementation for the omega statistic, which is used to detect complete selective sweeps in population genetic data using linkage-disequilibrium patterns of single nucleotide polymorphisms in multiple sequence alignments, is described and made available.
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Many algorithms in the field of evolutionary Bioinformatics have excessive computational requirements. This dissertation presents new reconfigurable architectures to accelerate parsimony- and likelihood-based phylogenetic tree reconstruction, as well as effective techniques to speed up the execution of a phylogeny-aware alignment kernel on general-purpose graphics processing units. It also introduces a novel technique to conduct efficient phylogenetic tree searches on alignments with missing dat...
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