Parabricks¶

General information¶

Installed versions¶

Read information about how to load this software in your environment by searching for Lmod module.

NVIDIA Parabricks is a high-performance software suite designed to accelerate genomic data analysis. It provides GPU optimized versions of widely used bioinformatics tools, allowing researchers to process sequencing data much faster compared to traditional CPU based workflows. More information at https://docs.nvidia.com/clara/parabricks/latest/index.html

Many common bioinformatics tools such as those used for alignment, variant calling, and data preprocessing have been adapted within Parabricks to run efficiently on NVIDIA GPUs. By leveraging the parallel processing power of GPUs, these tools can achieve significant speedups while maintaining the same results as their standard implementations.

This makes Parabricks especially useful for large-scale genomics projects, where reducing analysis time can greatly improve productivity and enable faster scientific discoveries.

For a full overview of what softwares are included please read the information at Parabricks

Download¶

Parabricks can be deployed as an Apptainer container. With Apptainer installed, the following command can be used to download the latest version as of now and run the Parabricks image.

apptainer pull parabricks.sif docker://nvcr.io/nvidia/clara/parabricks:4.7.1-1