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Bionano Genomics: Compute on Demand (COD) 1.2

Jan 26, 2021

Bionano Genomics has released version 1.2 of its Compute on Demand (COD) cloud compute solution. According to the company, it significantly reduces the cost and time to analyze structural variants in a human genome. Analysis results are now returned in nine hours, a 30 percent reduction in time. The improvements are enabled by the use of Microsoft Azure as a high-performance computing provider, adding to existing provider Amazon Web Services.

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