Today, Broad Institute announced the release of GATK on IBM POWER system. The HaplotypeCaller analysis can take a long time and this native implementation will leverage new POWER8 system to achieve performance optimization. The optimized code will run on Ubuntu 14 and RHEL7 platforms.
For more information and download the code, visit:
A big thanks to the IBM PowerGene development and ISV team for the work of optimization: Yinhe Cheng and Kathy Tzeng.
Also thanks to my friend Mauricio Carneiro, GATK development team manager, for allowing IBM to take on this challenge when we hatched the idea together during a genomics conference at Doha in June.
More Power to Genomics - scale, speed and SMARTS.
For more information and download the code, visit:
- https://www.broadinstitute.org/gatk/blog?id=4833
- http://gatkforums.broadinstitute.org/discussion/4833/speed-up-haplotypecaller-on-ibm-power8-systems
Also thanks to my friend Mauricio Carneiro, GATK development team manager, for allowing IBM to take on this challenge when we hatched the idea together during a genomics conference at Doha in June.
More Power to Genomics - scale, speed and SMARTS.
Very exciting announcement, Frank. Thanks for your invaluable assistance along the way!
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