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SUBMITTER: Malysa G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5856090 | biostudies-other | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Malysa Greg G Hernaez Mikel M Ochoa Idoia I Rao Milind M Ganesan Karthik K Weissman Tsachy T
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20150528 19
<h4>Motivation</h4>Recent advancements in sequencing technology have led to a drastic reduction in the cost of sequencing a genome. This has generated an unprecedented amount of genomic data that must be stored, processed and transmitted. To facilitate this effort, we propose a new lossy compressor for the quality values presented in genomic data files (e.g. FASTQ and SAM files), which comprise roughly half of the storage space (in the uncompressed domain). Lossy compression allows for compressi ...[more]