Time required for exome assembley

[JPC]

With a cluster like this;

(https://products.appliedbiosystems.c...2&tab=TechSpec)

and a tool like BWA how long are we talking to assemble an ABI SOLiD4, Sure select, 30X human exome? hours or days?

[ulz_peter]

I guess you mean alignment (as you mention BWA as program)
I do whole-exome alignment on a (relatively cheap) quadcore HP-workstation with 16GB ram within ~2h. For alignment / SNP calling with BWA you definitely do not need a HPC-Cluster setup.