Introduction

With rapidly rising volume of sequencing data, it is not enough to design algorithms and write codes merely to solve the needed problems. The bioinformaticians often needs to ensure that their codes efficiently handle large NGS libraries. That requires designing scalable algorithms, which is not possible without having rudimentary understanding of hardware. The topic is quite vast to be covered by this introductory tutorial, but this section provides few simple tricks and links for curious readers to explore further.