ONT-X: An FPGA Approach to Real-time Portable Genomic Analysis

Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) MinION is a pocket-sized portable DNA sequencer for on-the-field DNA sequencing. The ONT data analysis pipeline requires substantial amounts of computational resources for the basecalling and read alignment step in the pipeline. We study the compute and memory requirement of the basecalling step and present the detailed microarchitecture for accelerating it on FP...