Microsoft computing method makes key aspect of genomic sequencing seven times faster
Oct 18, 2016, 10:12 AM
by
Michael Croft
Microsoft Blog | In a blog post this morning, Microsoft announced that it has come up with a way to "significantly reduce the time it takes to do the major computational aspects of sequencing a genome." Microsoft is running the BWA aligner and GATK on the Azure cloud, and says it is 7x faster than previously.
October 18, 2016 | In a blog post this morning, Microsoft announced that it has come up with a way to "significantly reduce the time it takes to do the major computational aspects of sequencing a genome." Microsoft is running the BWA aligner and GATK on the Azure cloud, and says it is 7x faster than previously. Microsoft Blog