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Nvidia Parabricks 4.1

May 19, 2023

Nvidia this week released version 4.1 of its Parabricks sequencing analysis software. The update, which the company previewed at its semiannual developers' conference in March, adds a tool for retraining Google's DeepVariant to suit individual datasets, allowing for more accurate variant calling. The new version also features a first-ever workflow for long-read data from Pacific Biosciences sequencers.

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