FASTA/Q data compressors for MapReduce-Hadoop genomics: space and time savings made easy

Abstract Background Storage of genomic data is a major cost for the Life Sciences, effectively addressed via specialized data compression methods. For the same reasons of abundance in data production, the use of Big Data technologies is seen as the future for genomic data storage and processing, wit...

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Main Authors: Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Francesco Palini, Giuseppe Cattaneo, Raffaele Giancarlo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-03-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-021-04063-1

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