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  1. In genome analysis, it is often important to identify variants from a reference genome. However, identifying variants that occur with low frequency can be challenging, as it is computationally intensive to do so accurately. LoFreq is a widely used program that is adept at identifying low-frequency variants. This article presents a design framework for an FPGA-based accelerator for LoFreq. In particular, this accelerator is targeted at virus analysis, which is particularly challenging, compared to human genome analysis, as the characteristics of the data to be analyzed are fundamentally different. Across the design space, this accelerator can achieve up to 120× speedups on the core computation of LoFreq and speedups of up to 51.7× across the entire program. 
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  2. In genome analysis, it is often important to identify variants from a reference genome. However, identifying variants that occur with low frequency can be challenging, as it is computationally intensive to do so accurately. LoFreq is a widely used program that is adept at identifying low frequency variants. This paper presents an FPGA-based accelerator for LoFreq. In particular, this accelerator is targeted at virus analysis, which is particularly challenging, compared to human genome analysis, as the characteristics of the data to be analyzed are fundamentally different. This accelerator can achieve up to 120× speedups on the core computation of LoFreq and speedups of up to 32.4× across the entire program. 
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  3. In October 2021, 59 scientists from 14 countries and 13 U.S. states collaborated virtually in the Third Annual Baylor College of Medicine & DNANexus Structural Variation hackathon. The goal of the hackathon was to advance research on structural variants (SVs) by prototyping and iterating on open-source software. This led to nine hackathon projects focused on diverse genomics research interests, including various SV discovery and genotyping methods, SV sequence reconstruction, and clinically relevant structural variation, including SARS-CoV-2 variants. Repositories for the projects that participated in the hackathon are available at https://github.com/collaborativebioinformatics. 
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