An FPGA-Based Liquid Association Calculator for Genome-Wide Co-Expression Analysis

In this paper, we implement a Liquid Association calculator on an Altera Stratix V FPGA. Using data from high throughput microarrays, the hardware is capable of analyzing whether the presence of a third gene can affect the correlation between the existing two genes. The runtime and power consumption of our FPGA implementation is only 45.5% and 8.14%, respectively, of those required by the GPU version.

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