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However, RNAseq analysis can provide information about the specific mechanisms underlying the disease and the potential targets for therapy. This research proposes a new approach to differential gene expression (DGE) analysis, which is the heart of the core-analysis phase in any RNAseq study. Based on the Drosophila Genetic Reference Panel (DGRP), the gene expression dataset is computationally analyzed in light of eye-size phenotypes. We utilized the foreach and the doParallel R packages to run the code on a multicore machine to reduce the running time of the original algorithm, which exhibited an exponential time complexity. Experimental results showed an outstanding performance, reducing the running time by 95% while using 32 processes. 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