Improving transmission efficiency of large sequence alignment/map (SAM) files.

Research in bioinformatics primarily involves collection and analysis of a large volume of genomic data. Naturally, it demands efficient storage and transfer of this huge amount of data. In recent years, some research has been done to find efficient compression algorithms to reduce the size of vario...

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Main Authors: Muhammad Nazmus Sakib, Jijun Tang, W Jim Zheng, Chin-Tser Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3229529?pdf=render