DeepDrop

DeepDrop

open-source genomics · from €0.99 · arm64 ·

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First open-source ARM64 port

DeepVariant on ARM64

INT8-quantized variant calling — submitted to the Journal of Open Source Software, validated across 5 cloud platforms, from €0.99 per genome.

0.9961

SNP F1

30× WGS validated

21 MB

INT8 Model

74% smaller

2.3×

Faster

vs standard precision

€1.49

Per Genome

FASTQ · budget tier

INT8 Quantization

74% compression

Post-training INT8 reduces InceptionV3 from 84 MB to 21 MB — near-zero accuracy loss. Dense convolutions are unusually quantization-friendly.

Parallel call_variants

2.5× speedup

Custom wrapper breaks the GEMM saturation ceiling at 16+ threads by splitting inference across independent processes.

5-Platform Validation

5 platforms

Validated on Graviton3, Graviton4, Oracle A1, Oracle A2, and Hetzner CAX41. Identical F1 scores across all platforms.

Accuracy Validation

GIAB HG003 chr20 · rtg vcfeval · INT8 ONNX

INT8 ≈ FP32

near-zero degradation

RegionSNP F1INDEL F1
Aggregate0.99780.9962
Homopolymers0.99850.9967
Simple Repeats0.99940.9967
Seg. Duplications0.98020.9814

INT8 passes all GIAB stratification regions — homopolymers, tandem repeats, segmental duplications — with near-zero localized degradation.

Cost per Genome (FASTQ → VCF)

30× WGS, full pipeline

DeepDrop
1.49
Terra + Parabricks
2.15
Illumina DRAGEN
6.89
AWS HealthOmics
9.20
-31% vs Terra-78% vs Illumina-84% vs AWS

How It Works

01

Upload

BAM or FASTQ

02

Provision

ARM64 server

03

DeepVariant

INT8 ONNX

04

Download

VCF results

Server provisioned on-demand, pipeline runs automatically, server destroyed after. Data deleted after 7 days. EU-hosted. No cloud account needed.

Submitted to JOSS (Journal of Open Source Software)

“DeepVariant-ARM64: INT8-quantized variant calling on Linux AArch64” — A. Lamb, Mar 2026. Peer review pending.