DNA analysis is transforming the treatment of many diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer’s, and monogenic diseases in infants by customizing patients’ treatment based on their genetic characteristics. Due to the promise of precision medicine which is based on such analysis, the
number of genomes to be sequenced is expected to double every year and newer technologies are needed to accelerate the analysis process to make these analyses the standard of care. In this work, we show how Parabricks’ high performance Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) software, based on NVIDIA Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) accelerated computing, accelerates the process from two days to one hour at one-fourth the cost. Furthermore, we show the impact that this has on leading genomic research centers such as BIOTEC, which plans to analyze thousands of samples every year. By reducing the turnaround time from days to an hour, BIOTEC plans to gain deeper insights into data, which was not previously possible.
number of genomes to be sequenced is expected to double every year and newer technologies are needed to accelerate the analysis process to make these analyses the standard of care. In this work, we show how Parabricks’ high performance Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) software, based on NVIDIA Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) accelerated computing, accelerates the process from two days to one hour at one-fourth the cost. Furthermore, we show the impact that this has on leading genomic research centers such as BIOTEC, which plans to analyze thousands of samples every year. By reducing the turnaround time from days to an hour, BIOTEC plans to gain deeper insights into data, which was not previously possible.