Efficient storage of high throughput DNA sequencing data using reference-based compression

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Figure 1.

Schematic of the compression technique. (A) Reads are first aligned to an established reference. (B) Unaligned reads are then pooled to create a specific “compression framework” for this data set. (C) The base pair information is then stored using specific offsets of reads on the reference, with substitutions, insertions, or deletions encoded in separate data structures.

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  1. Genome Res. 21: 734-740

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