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Sequence Compression Benchmark (SCB) database-A comprehensive evaluation of reference-free compressors for FASTA-formatted sequences.
GigaScience - 1 Jul 2020
Kryukov Kirill, Ueda Mahoko Takahashi, Nakagawa So, Imanishi Tadashi
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BACKGROUND: Nearly all molecular sequence databases currently use gzip for data compression. Ongoing rapid accumulation of stored data calls for a more efficient compression tool. Although numerous compressors exist, both specialized and general-purpose, choosing one of them was difficult because no comprehensive analysis of their comparative advantages for sequence compression was available. FINDINGS: We...
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