December 2018

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Taking on the limits of computing power

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Founded by Prof. Scott Mahlke and his former students Mehrzad Samadi (PhD CSE 2014) and Ankit Sethia (MSE PhD CSE 2011, 2015), Ann Arbor-based Parabricks Inc. employs proprietary high-performance computing techniques to dramatically accelerate whole genome sequencing.

 

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