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Phylogenetic tree is a meaningful representation for the evolutionary history of different organisms. Due to the exponentially increasing search space for the optimal Maximum Likelihood (ML) criterion, the phylogeny inference is classified as NP-hard. Heuristic search makes use of the likelihood evaluation function extensively to give score for the candidate solutions. This tree evaluation becomes a critical but computationally demanding task. In this paper, we address the computational issue for the evaluation of a phylogenetic tree under ML criterion, for a given set D of n properly aligned DNA sequences each with l nucleotide sites. We present a high performance field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) implementation for tackling the tree evaluation process in order to speed up the tree reconstruction. An efficient fine-grained parallel design based on the idea of partial likelihood is proposed. It has been shown to be 100 times faster than solely using the software.
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Mak, T.S.T., Lam, K.P. (2004). FPGA-Based Computation for Maximum Likelihood Phylogenetic Tree Evaluation. In: Becker, J., Platzner, M., Vernalde, S. (eds) Field Programmable Logic and Application. FPL 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3203. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30117-2_130
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