A Survey on Data Compression Methods for Biological Sequences

The ever increasing growth of the production of high-throughput sequencing data poses a serious challenge to the storage, processing and transmission of these data. As frequently stated, it is a data deluge. Compression is essential to address this challenge—it reduces storage space and processing c...

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Main Authors: Morteza Hosseini, Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-10-01
Series:Information
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/7/4/56