Big data platform to speed up DNA analysis
Belgium’s Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre has developed a big data platform that can analyse DNA data up to 16 times faster than current techniques
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Researchers at Belgium’s Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (Imec) have developed a big data platform that can analyse DNA data up to 16 times faster than current methods.
Called ElPrep5, the platform is aimed at users in the pharmaceutical industry, scientific research, medical laboratories, sequencing service providers, sequencing suppliers and hospitals.
Imec said ElPrep5 can perform DNA analyses eight to 16 times faster than the widely used genome analysis toolkit (GATK), from data preparation to variant calling on a similar hardware infrastructure.