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How fast is your read mapping algorithm?

This is a question that is often asked when I demo the GenomeQuest platform to potential customers. I always answer that question in three phases. The first phase goes like this: "It's really fast, it's certainly not any slower than BWA/Bowtie or anything else out there.". Next question is always: "Well, do you have any benchmarks?". Which ...

Upcoming Improvements to the GenomeQuest Engine

As the product manager at GenomeQuest, I'm very excited to tell you about a couple of really great new features in the GQ-Engine. Features that add to the growing library of high quality NGSĀ components available to GQ platform developers and end users. Fast local alignments of NGS reads NGS read mappers typically align reads by trying to ...