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- María José López Pourailly
United against Coronavirus: NVIDIA Enterprise offers free access to DNA analysis software
Seeking to collaborate in the worldwide fight against Coronavirus, NVIDIA, a company specialized in artificial intelligence computing, is providing free access to its NVIDIA Parabricks program, a software suite to perform secondary analysis of DNA data from next generation sequences.
Parabrick's free use licenses are valid for 90 days and are directed to the scientific community and researchers.
Based on the well-known Genome Analysis Toolkit, Parabricks uses GPUs to speed up the analysis of sequence data by up to 50 times. One of the main benefits of Parabricks is that it is designed to deliver results at high speeds and at a low cost.
For researchers working with Oxford Nanopore's long-read data, a repository of GPU-accelerated tools is available on GitHub. In addition, the following applications already have NVIDIA GPU acceleration integrated: Medaka, Racon, Raven, Reticulatus, Unicycler.
Interested parties must complete the license on this form and have access to NVIDIA GPUs.
For more information, please visit: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/03/19/coronavirus-research-parabricks/
Remember that the National Research and Education Networks (NREN) of Latin America are coordinating, together with RedCLARA, various actions to support our partner institutions in the fight against the Coronavirus (COVID-19).
For more information about the free services to face the situation that afflicts us with the pandemic, which is offered to the scientific-academic community of your country, contact your national network:
- Brazil - RNP, write to: atendimento@rnp.br
- Colombia - RENATA, write to: communications@renata.edu.co
- Costa Rica - RedCONARE, write to: info@redconare.ac.cr
- Chile - REUNA, write to: cmunoz@reuna.cl
- Ecuador - CEDIA, write to: info@cedia.org.ec
- El Salvador - RAICES, write to: ppsanchezc@gmail.com
- Guatemala - RAGIE, write to: marcoto@galileo.edu
- Mexico - CUDI, write to: cudi@cudi.edu.mx
- Honduras - RUNBA, write to: phernandez@unah.edu.hn
- Uruguay - RAU, write to: luis.castillo@seciu.edu.uy
If there is no national network identified here, write to RedCLARA_comunica@redclara.net.
The national Academic Networks that are part of RedCLARA are non-for-profit organizations and do not represent any type of trademark.
