Introduction to GPU-Accelerated Genomics with Parabricks

Genomic sequencing is faster and cheaper than ever. The new bottleneck in the genomics pipeline is in the analysis. If it takes 30 hours to run variant calling on a single sample, it could take months or even years to process thousands of samples. This is where Parabricks comes in. Using GPU acceleration, we've cut the variant calling time to below 20 minutes for a 30x human genome. This allows for new genomics projects to be done at a scale that wasn't previously possible. We'll discuss the capabilities of Parabricks and its performance compared to traditional genomics software packages (such as GATK), and show a demo of what it looks like in action.