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SUMMARY:Bioinformatics for vegetable breeding at Starke Ayres
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Godwin Mafireyi (Starke Ayres)\nStarke Ayres is one 
 of Africa’s largest seed companies in Africa which specializes in the de
 velopment of superior vegetable seed varieties. Bioinformatics forms a cru
 cial part of plant breeding as it helps researchers gain a deeper understa
 nding of the genetics of their germplasm. To do this\, we employ bioinform
 atics tools and software to perform computationally demanding processes su
 ch as read alignment to reference genomes\, variant discovery\, genome ass
 embly and phylogenetics among other processes. As bioinformatics must deal
  with large amounts of sequence data\, computational resources often becom
 e a limiting factor. We have been able to use CHPC massive computational p
 ower to accelerate molecular marker discovery for several traits. These pr
 ojects would have otherwise been extremely slow or not possible if we reli
 ed on desktop computers with limited memory\, processing power and storge.
  The vast amount of core bioinformatics tools and software that is preinst
 alled and configured on CHPC\, save a lot of time that could have been use
 d to configure and install these software packages on our local machines. 
 In addition\, parallelization capabilities of CHPC using MPI have made dat
 a processing quicker and more efficient.\n\nhttps://events.chpc.ac.za/even
 t/98/contributions/1515/
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URL:https://events.chpc.ac.za/event/98/contributions/1515/
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