Originally published at: NVIDIA Parabricks: Accelerating Genomic Analysis from Days to an Hour | NVIDIA Technical Blog
Sequencing costs have plummeted with the help of new medical instruments: almost every 6 months we see new instrument with higher throughput like BGI’s DNBSEQ-T7 at 60 genomes per day. At the world’s rate of sequencing, we’ll generate 20 ExaBytes of data by 2025 – more than Twitter, Youtube and astronomy combined. In fact, it…