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Although the time and cost of sequencing an entire human genome has plummeted, analyzing the resulting three billion base pairs of genetic information from a single genome can take many months.

In the journal Bioinformatics, however, a University of Chicago-based team – working with Beagle, one of the world's fastest supercomputers devoted to life sciences – reports that genome analysis can be radically accelerated. This computer, based at Argonne National Laboratory, is able to analyze 240 full genomes in about two days.

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http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-02-supercomputer-rapid-genome-analysis.html