Biosequence Analysis Using Intel® Xeon Phi

Due to the ever-increasing size of sequence databases, it has become clear that faster techniques must be employed to effectively perform biological sequence analysis in a reasonable amount of time. In bioinformatics, protein sequence alignment is one of the fundamental tasks. MPI-HMMER is one of the applications that perform this kind of bio-sequence analysis. Since the growth of biological data is exponential, there is an ever-increasing demand for computational power. This paper discusses the behavior of MPI-HMMER on hybrid architecture by using native compilation technique on Intel Xeon Phi.