This project started as an application written in JavaScript that provides scientists with a quality check on their DNA sequencing data. By switching to WebAssembly, we observed a 20X speedup in our analysis time (see https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/04/webassembly-speed-web-app/). The latest iteration of the project was to move the analysis from the browser to the edge using Cloudflare Workers (see https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/08/beyond-browser-serverless-webassembly/).

By running the WebAssembly in Cloudflare Workers instead of the browser, the app is more lightweight for the end user, and allows us to confidently process more data at a time since the environment is the same each time.