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Author: Jason Chin
Jason Chin is co-founder of Omni Biocomputing LLC, which develops tools and provides comprehensive genomic analysis services. Previously, he was a scientific fellow in Pacific Bioscience, pioneering bioinformatics and algorithm development that brought the long-read DNA sequencing platform to scientific fruition.
Accelerating genome assembly with AWS Graviton2
One of the biggest scientific achievements of the twenty-first century was the completion of the Human Genome Project and the publication of a draft human genome. The project took over 13 years to complete and remains one of the largest private-public international collaborations ever. Advances since in sequencing technologies, computational hardware, and novel algorithms reduced the time it takes to produce a human genome assembly to only a few days, at a fraction of the cost. This made using the human genome draft for precision and personalized medicine more achievable. In this blog, we demonstrate how to do a genome assembly in the cloud in a cost-efficient manner using ARM-based AWS Graviton2 instances.