White Papers

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

In the last decade, modern society has continued to improve the quality of life through better healthcare, producing and consuming

sustainable food and energy, and protecting our environment. All of these societal advancements are tightly related to progress in the

life science domain. Bioinformatics emerged from the massive amount of data that is now available in these fields and the advancement

of computer technology takes a key role to finding solutions. In bioinformatics, sequence assembly refers to reconstructing the original

genome sequence from a massive number of DNA fragments. Sequence assembly is used to generate a reference genome sequence

and also enables comparative, functional and evolutionary analyses on a genome sequence. However, obtaining the right data (higher

accuracy and low error rate) and resolving ambiguity are two main concerns in de novo assembly. These problems require de novo

assembly to be performed multiple times with different algorithms; hence a big memory machine to run assembly algorithms efficiently

is an important part of the solution. Dell EMC PowerEdge

R940 is a better server to perform de novo assembly faster and more

efficiently than its predecessor.

AUDIENCE

This white paper is intended for providing valuable insights to consider Dell EMC PowerEdge

R940 in the context of Life Science

applications. System administrators, solution architects, researchers, and others who are involved in a decision making for a HPC

system constitute the target audience.