Research:

1.INVERTER 
A de novo tandem repeat finder without the need to specify either the pattern or a particular pattern size, integrated with a data visualization tool and has a built-in user-friendly GUI. 

• Wirawan, A., Kwoh, C.K., Hsu, L.Y., Koh, T.H. (2010). INVERTER: INtegrated Variable numbER Tandem rEpeat findeR, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Volume 115, Part 4, pp. 151-164.
• Lim, KG, Kwoh, CK, Hsu, LY, and Wirawan, A (2012). Review of tandem repeat search tools: a systematic approach to evaluating algorithmic performance Briefings in Bioinformatics. doi:10.1093/bib/bbs023.

2.CBESW 
A fast parallel Smith Waterman protein database search algorithm on the PlayStation 

• Wirawan, A., Kwoh, C.K., Nim, T.H., Schmidt, B. (2008). CBESW: Sequence Alignment on the Playstation 3, BMC Bioinformatics, Vol. 9:377.
• Wirawan, A, Schmidt, B, Zhang, H, and Kwoh, CK (2009). High performance protein sequence database scanning on the Cell Broadband Engine. Scientific Computing, 17(1-2):97-111.
• Wirawan, A, Schmidt, B, and Kwoh, CK (2008). Parallel DNA sequence alignment on the Cell Broadband Engine In: Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, Springer, vol. 4967, chap. 1, pp. 1249-1256. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

3.DistMatComp 
A multi-threaded vectorized distance matrix computation on the Cell Broadband Engine and x86/SSE2 architectures 

• Wirawan, A., Kwoh, C.K., and Schmidt, B. (2010). Multi-threaded vectorized distance matrix computation on the CELL/BE and x86/SSE2 architectures. Bioinformatics, 26(10):1368-1369.
• Wirawan, A, Schmidt, B, and Kwoh, CK (2009).Pairwise Distance Matrix Computation for Multiple Sequence Alignment on the Cell Broadband Engine In: Computational Science - Iccs 2009, Part I, ed. by Allen, G. Nabrzyski J. Seidel E. Dongarra J. VanAlbada G. D. Sloot and Pma. Springer, vol. 5544, chap. 1, pp. 954-963. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

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