Meraculous: Deciphering the 'Book of Life' With Supercomputers
Monday, June 1, 2015 - 08:30
in Biology & Nature
A team of scientists from Berkeley Lab, JGI and UC Berkeley, simplified and sped up genome assembly, reducing a months-long process to mere minutes. This was primarily achieved by "parallelizing" the code to harness the processing power of supercomputers.