Daily Archives: 6 September, 2013

What we’re reading: Compressed genomes, drafting genes, and the third post-publication peer reviewer

Posted on 6 September, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

In the journals Deorowicz, S., A. Danek, and S. Grabowski. 2013. Genome compression: A novel approach for large collections. Bioinformatics 1–7. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt460. More precisely, our novel Ziv-Lempel-style compression algorithm squeezes a single human genome to ~400KB. The key to … Continue reading →