Alejandro Chacon

Alejandro Chacon is a researcher in high-performance computing and computer architecture applied to bioinformatics. He's working on Healthcare at NVIDIA by leading Genomics efforts as Developer Technologies engineer. Alejandro's research is recognized for improving computational efficiency in bioinformatics, making significant contributions to scalable, GPU-optimized algorithms in DNA sequencing.
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Posts by Alejandro Chacon

Simulation / Modeling / Design Sep 10, 2025

Accelerate Protein Structure Inference Over 100x with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition

The race to understand protein structures has never been more critical. From accelerating drug discovery to preparing for future pandemics, the ability to... 6 MIN READ
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Data Science Nov 13, 2024

Boost Alphafold2 Protein Structure Prediction with GPU-Accelerated MMseqs2

The ability to compare the sequences of multiple related proteins is a foundational task for many life science researchers. This is often done in the form of a... 9 MIN READ