I think there is plenty of room for GPU usage in bioinformatics, but there are some barriers that prevent it from gaining prevelance, such as cost vs cpus, and

I think there is plenty of room for GPU usage in bioinformatics, but there are some barriers that prevent it from gaining prevelance, such as cost vs cpus, and lack of updates (example, gpu-blast is still 1.1, blast is 1.2).