https://avilpage.com/enWed, 25 Mar 2026 23:23:20 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://avilpage.com/2026/02/classify-billion-base-pairs-per-second.htmlAnand Reddy Pandikunta<p>During 25th Feb 2026, a <a href="https://www.meetup.com/bangpypers/events/311155506">joint meetup</a> was hosted by BangPypers &amp; SciPy India. </p> <p>There was a slot for lightning talk &amp; I gave a talk on Kraken2 performance optimisations titled as "Classify billion base pairs per second".</p> <p>Since it was a lightning talk, I didn't had time to polish the slides. During the talk, I briefly covered:</p> <ul> <li>What is metagenomics?</li> <li>Overview of open source classification tools </li> <li>Brief intro to Kraken2</li> <li>Performance optimizations in Kraken2</li> </ul> <p>Few years back, I wrote a series of posts on <a href="https://avilpage.com/2024/07/mastering-kraken2-initial-runs.html">Mastering Kraken2</a> where I covered all the optimizations in detail. If you want to dig deeper into the topic, you can check out the series.</p> <p><img src="https://avilpage.com/images/anand-talk-kraken.png" alt="Anand's talk on Kraken" width="600"></p>talkshttps://avilpage.com/2026/02/classify-billion-base-pairs-per-second.htmlSat, 28 Feb 2026 01:27:43 GMT