Isha Salian | NVIDIA | February 18, 2022
Guinness World Records this week presented a Stanford University-led research team with the first record for fastest DNA sequencing technique — a benchmark set using a workflow sped up by AI and accelerated computing.
Achieved in five hours and two minutes, the DNA sequencing record can allow clinicians to take a blood draw from a critical-care patient and reach a genetic disorder diagnosis the same day. The recognition was awarded by a Guinness World Records adjudicator Wednesday at Stanford University’s Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center, named for NVIDIA’s founder and CEO, a Stanford alumnus.
The landmark study behind the world record was led by Dr. Euan Ashley, professor of medicine, of genetics and of biomedical data science at the Stanford School of Medicine. Collaborators include researchers from Stanford, NVIDIA, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Google, Baylor College of Medicine and the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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