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# Software Overview

Parabricks supports the following tools:

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The [somatic (Somatic Variant Caller)](/tool-reference/tools/somatic), [germline (GATK Germline Pipeline)](/tool-reference/tools/germline), [pacbio_germline](/tool-reference/tools/pacbio_germline),
[ont_germline](/tool-reference/tools/ont_germline), [deepvariant_germline](/tool-reference/tools/deepvariant_germline) and [pangenome_germline](/tool-reference/tools/pangenome_germline)
tools are a collection of several individual tools that are frequently run together,
each grouped as a single command for the users convenience. For example, [deepvariant_germline](/tool-reference/tools/deepvariant_germline)
takes FASTA and FASTQ files as input and produces a VCF and BAM file as output.
Internally, it runs BWA-MEM alignment, performs coordinate sorting, marks duplicates,
and then runs DeepVariant.

Refer to the [Tool Reference](/tool-reference) for lists of all the individual tools. Refer to
[Parabricks WDL/Nextflow Workflows](/about-parabricks/software-overview/nvidia-parabricks-wdl-nextflow-workflows) for information on using Parabricks
with WDL and Nextflow. The [Output Accuracy and Compatible CPU Software Versions](/about-parabricks/software-overview/output-accuracy-and-compatible-cpu-software-versions) page lists the
open-source CPU tools Parabricks is compatible with.