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2021 Could Be the Year of Quantum Drug Discovery

January 11, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 1

While this new year might not mark the moment when the first drugs are discovered via molecular dynamics simulations running on a full-scale quantum, there are several signs that a number of important collaborations between the few quantum vendors and major biotech companies are announced. …

AI

Deep Learning Hardware for the Next Big AI Framework

January 18, 2019 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

It might be a bit early to call generative adversarial networks (GANs) the next platform for AI evolution, but there is little doubt we will hear much more about this beefed up approach to deep learning over the next year and beyond. …

Compute

A Revival in Custom Hardware For Accelerated Genomics

May 15, 2018 James Cuff 0

Building custom processors and systems to annotate chunks of DNA is not a new phenomenon but given the increasing complexity of genomics as well as explosion in demand, this trend is being revived. …

AI

Unwinding Moore’s Law from Genomics with Co-Design

February 8, 2017 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

More than almost any other market or research segment, genomics is vastly outpacing Moore’s Law. …

Control

CRG Goes With The Genomics Flow

January 28, 2016 Nicole Hemsoth, Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

From its start in 2000, The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) has been the largest genomic research center in Spain and among the largest in Europe. …

Cloud

Google Playing Swift Catch Up in Life Sciences Cloud

January 12, 2016 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

In 2003, the first human genome required $3 billion and fifteen years to fully sequence. …

Compute

Genomics Marks The Next Sequence For FPGAs

October 29, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

There is a perfect storm developing that is set to whisk the once esoteric field programmable gate array (FPGA) processor ecosystem off the ground and into the stratosphere. …

Cloud

Google, Cycle Computing Pair for Broad Genomics Effort

September 8, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

In times long since passed, when cloud was the latest, greatest hype machine, a steady wave of “cloud enablement” companies came to fore, promising secure ease as users tiptoed across the firewall. …

Compute

Matching Xeon Phi Performance to Genomic Analysis

September 7, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 5

When it comes to DNA analysis, large-scale pattern matching algorithms are constantly being refined to add a performance and efficiency boost  to speed the time to result and accordingly, the practical implementation of fast analysis for more accurate, timely, personalized medical care and research. …

Cloud

Boosting the Genomics Pipeline on the Amazon Cloud

July 27, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

Last week we described the recent, explosive growth of Amazon Web Services, which the company says is due in large part to an influx of new users—and existing AWS customers who are scaling their workloads ever higher. …

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