Blue Waters Supercomputer Supporting Development of Genotyping Chip for African Populations

Jun 16, 2016

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Computational scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have worked with researchers at the University of Cape Town and elsewhere to use supercomputing infrastructure housed at UIUC to analyze genomic data as part of a broader effort to develop an inexpensive genotyping chip to test for variants found specifically in people of African descent.

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