Biofy cut infectious disease diagnosis from five days to four hours with an NVIDIA-accelerated genome pipeline.

Hospitals relied on cultures taking about five days, so clinicians prescribed broad-spectrum antibiotics in the meantime. Biofy built a pipeline on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using NVIDIA GPUs and RAPIDS to assemble bacterial genomes and recommend antibiotics. The page reports diagnosis time of four hours, accuracy of 95-97% versus 80% for traditional methods, and over 100 lives saved since launch.

NVIDIA is a computing and AI company whose BioNeMo and Clara platforms provide models and accelerated tools for drug discovery, genomics and medical imaging.

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