Computer scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have released a major upgrade of Samtools, one of the most popular next-generation sequence analysis tools. The revised Samtools 1.0 enables ...

For the purposes of this thread, the best compression ratio is one that is the largest fraction representing uncompressed data size to compressed data size. A format that compresses 6.4GB of data to 1 ...

"7z is the new archive format, providing high compression ratio. The main features of 7z format: Open architecture. High compression ratio. Strong AES-256 encryption. Ability of using any compression, ...

The kernel.org repository depends heavily on compression to keep its storage and bandwidth expenses down. An uncompressed tarball for the 2.6.32 release weighs in at 365MB; if downloaders grabbed the ...

Lossless data compression is an important tool for reducing the storage requirements of the world's ever-growing data sets. Yann Collet developed the LZ4 algorithm and designed the Zstandard (or Zstd) ...

Current trends in HTS data generation indicate that storage, transmission and bandwidth costs will soon surpass the costs of sequencing and become the main bottleneck in genomics as well as in the ...