Benjamin Madej, a chemistry and biochemistry PhD student at the University of California, San Diego, has won the 2012-2013 Nvidia Graduate Fellowship Program award for his molecular dynamics research using graphics processing unit-based computing.
The scientists will use GPU-accelerated alignment and mapping software in combination with sensitive mutation detection methods to deliver "an optimized and powerful solution" for cancer genome analysis.
They're cheap, they're everywhere, and more and more tools for life sciences are being ported to take advantage of their processing power. Here's the latest to come from those in the GPU trenches.
