Share Your Science: Understanding Cancer Biology with GPUs

Originally published at: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/share-your-science-understanding-cancer-biology-with-gpus/

Gil Speyer, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) shares how NVIDIA technology is accelerating the computer processing of transcriptomes from thousands of cells gleaned from patient tumor samples. Using NVIDIA Tesla K40 GPUs and CUDA, the scientists developed a statistical analysis tool called EDDY (evaluation of differential dependency) that examines in…