Releases Past Releases Partner Releases Customer Successes Customer Success Stories Altera programmable logic devices, software, and intellectual property are used in a variety of systems. The stories below describe the successes customers have had using our products. Promising great advances in understanding the intricacies of life via endeavors such as the Human Genome Project, genetics is one of the most exciting fields in the scientific world today.
Genomes can contain huge amounts of data, up to billions of pieces of information.
The search for useful genes, proteins, and amino acids among the vast amount of genomic data involves processing-intensive bioinformatic algorithms that can take days running on standard computational platforms. 10K devices to speed customized genomic searches. The result is search times that are often orders of magnitude shorter than the same searches performed by traditional computational methods. Currently, the amount of available genomic data is doubling every 14 to 18 months, and computational loads dealing with that data are doubling at twice that rate. As a result, new search methods are being developed constantly.