Overview

Instructor: Greg Zynda

Time: Tuesday, October 31, 2023 — 1:30PM-4:00PM CT

Location: online using Zoom

Prerequisites: Current ACCESS ID, basic Linux/Unix skills, and basic familiarity with NGS techniques/terminology

Introduction to NVIDIA Parabricks, a software suite that allows users to perform secondary analysis of next generation sequencing DNA and RNA data. The software incorporated into NVIDIA Parabricks has been optimized to run on GPUs, drastically increasing the speed at which common NGS analyses and tasks can be completed.

Course Materials

Presentation slides

The presentation slides are available as a downloadable PDF.

• Accessing Clara Parabricks (Fall 2023) PDF

Previous Training Materials

• Accessing Clara Parabricks (Spring 2023) PDF

Agenda

Topics covered include:

• The benefit of GPU-acceleration in bioinformatic pipelines
• Introduction to NVIDIA's Parabricks software suite
• Instructor-guided, hands-on examples of using Parabricks to align reads to a genome
• Instructor-guided, hands-on examples of using Parabricks to identify genomic variants