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Supercomputer Force Knocks Human Genome Assembly Under 9 Minutes

August 20, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett Comments Off

A team from the Joint Genome Institute at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and researchers from UC Berkeley have used 15,000 cores on the Cray XC30 “Edison” supercomputer to boost the complete assembly of the human genome, bringing the time down to 8.4 minutes. …