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Application: metagenomics

Providing Exascale Solutions for the Assembly and Analysis of Metagenomic Data

Kathy Yelick and Lenny Oliker of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory explain why understanding microbial communities is so important.

Solutions for Microbiome Analysis

Analyzing the DNA of microorganism communities is one of the most computationally demanding tasks in bioinformatics, requiring exascale computing and advanced algorithms.

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