Compressing DNA sequence databases with coil |
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Authors: | W Timothy J White Michael D Hendy |
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Institution: | (1) Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand |
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Abstract: | Background Publicly available DNA sequence databases such as GenBank are large, and are growing at an exponential rate. The sheer volume
of data being dealt with presents serious storage and data communications problems. Currently, sequence data is usually kept
in large "flat files," which are then compressed using standard Lempel-Ziv (gzip) compression – an approach which rarely achieves
good compression ratios. While much research has been done on compressing individual DNA sequences, surprisingly little has
focused on the compression of entire databases of such sequences. In this study we introduce the sequence database compression
software coil. |
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