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BarraCUDA Fast Short Read Aligner

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Barracuda is a high-speed sequence aligner based on Sanger's BWA and utilizes the latest Nvidia CUDA architecture for accelerating alignments of sequence reads generated by next-generation sequencers.

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Features

  • New: BarraCUDA (R260) is now compatible with CUDA 5.0
  • New: GTX680 offers a further boost compared to Tesla C2075
  • FM-index sequencing read mapper software using NVIDIA CUDA acceleration
  • Outputs in SAM format for downstream analyses
  • Much faster! Now 6 - 10X acceleration compared to 1 CPU core
  • Requires NVIDIA graphics card with compute capability 2.0 or above and at least 768MB VRAM
  • Requires NVIDIA CUDA SDK toolkit 4.x or above and NVIDIA driver 280 or above
  • BarraCUDA is now published on BMC Research Notes 2012, 5:27, doi:10.1186/1756-0500-5-27
  • Paper URL: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/5/27
  • This project is supported by the CUDA centre of excellence at Cambridge University

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  • Posted by Tyler 2012-03-26

    One of the easiest apps to use

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User Interface

Command-line

Programming Language

C, C++

Registered

2009-10-23

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