NVIDIA Parabricks GPU-accelerated FQ2BAM is now available in Galaxy! We benchmarked its runtime against BWA-MEM2 and BWA across five runs and find that mapping and QC metrics remain essentially identical to CPU-based alignment—while delivering a major speedup for Galaxy workflows.
https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-12-15-fq2bam/

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GPU-accelerated genome mapper Parabricks FQ2BAM is now in Galaxy

NVIDIA Parabricks GPU-accelerated FQ2BAM is now available in Galaxy, bringing FASTQ-to-BAM alignment runtime to just a few minutes for 2.5 GB paired-end human whole-genome datasets. Its runtime is ben