TimeLogic® Biocomputing Solutions

scalable, high-throughput systems for bioinformatics

TimeLogic, the bioinformatics brand of Active Motif, provides high-performance Biocomputing systems that combine custom designed Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) circuitry with optimized implementations of fundamental bioinformatics algorithms. The result is a powerful, fully supported solution for high performance Biocomputing with industry leading price / performance.

The abundance of data being generated by Next Generation sequencing systems continues to challenge informaticians and researchers alike. Institutions struggle to keep pace with this data analysis burden because sequencing throughput continues to increase at a pace faster than Moore’s Law. A variety of possible solutions exist for this problem however, of these competing technologies, TimeLogic’s FPGA-accelerated algorithms offer the best performance per dollar.

VelociRaptor

VelociMapper

FPGA-accelerated alignment of NGS data

VelociMapper™ runs on TimeLogic's newest FPGA-based DeCypher J1 Similarity Search Engine Accelerator to provide fast, reliable results that significantly outperform software-only or GPU-accelerated alternatives.

  • Faster than Burrows-Wheeler (BWT) based short-read mapping algorithms like BWA, Bowtie, or SOAPaligner/soap2.
  • High sensitivity with support for up to 7 mismatches and/or indels with
    no performance penalty.
  • Produces sensitive Smith-Waterman gapped alignments.
  • Reliable support for FASTQ and BAM formatting.
  • Produces a sorted BAM file as output for convenient integration with auxiliary tools like SAMtools and GATK.

Tera-BLAST

FPGA-accelerated BLAST

Tera-BLAST™ is the best performing implementation of the BLAST algorithm available. Our latest FPGA-based DeCypher J1 Similarity Search Engine Accelerator imbues Tera-Blast with unprecedented performance and we significantly outperform software-only or GPU-accelerated alternatives. But don't take our word for it, see for yourself!

BLAST performance is very data dependent and as a result, standardized benchmark tests are useless. Imagine, for example, how fast a job goes when you get no hits! Instead of inferring performance, provide us with your own data and parameter settings and let us show you what we can do.

Sledgehammer

DeCypherHMM

FPGA-accelerated HMMER

Within the field of bioinformatics, profile hidden Markov models (HMMs) are commonly used for searching protein sequence databases. Dynamic programming algorithms that utilize HMMs, such as HMMER2.0, can be computationally intensive as they compare every query symbol to every target symbol. To address this challenge, TimeLogic developed DeCypherHMM, which is an FPGA-accelerated implementation of the HMMER2.0 algorithm.

SWalignment

DeCypherSW

FPGA-accelerated Smith-Waterman

Accuracy is what Smith-Waterman is all about. Often cited as the Gold-Standard for alignment algorithms, Smith-Waterman thoroughly interrogates all sequence space and provides the optimal alignment for a given query / target pair. The dynamic nature of this algorithm, however, has a dramatic affect on performance, rendering Smith-Waterman usage impractical for the analysis of large data sets. DeCypherSW™, our FPGA-accelerated implementation, eliminates that problem.

Detective

GeneDetective™

FPGA-accelerated Gene Finding algorithm

Our GeneDetective™ algorithm allows you to rapidly generate Human gene models for the study of alternative splicing events. GeneDetective™ reconstructs splice junctions in order to accurately align EST/cDNAs, proteins, or Hidden Markov Models to genomic DNA to produce a graphical gene model, multiple sequence alignment or RNA transcripts.

BenchmarkRequest

Request a Benchmark Test

You supply the Data and we do the rest!

TimeLogic is the only vendor of accelerated Biocomputing systems that will allow you to conduct customized performance benchmark tests before you buy, using your own data and parameter settings, so you know exactly what performance to expect. No surprises here. We will even give you the output file for your review.

If your genomics team needs additional computing resources, have TimeLogic run a large search on one of our DeCypher systems. It's the best way to evaluate what our accelerated resources can do for your throughput.

Visit www.timelogic.com or contact us for additional information.