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Houtgast, E.J. (author), Sima, V.M. (author), Bertels, K.L.M. (author), Al-Ars, Z. (author)We present our work on hardware accelerated genomics pipelines, using either FPGAs or GPUs to accelerate execution of BWA-MEM, a widely-used algorithm for genomic short read mapping. The mapping stage can take up to 40% of overall processing time for genomics pipelines. Our implementation offloads the Seed Extension function, one of the main...journal article 2018