New businesses eye the opportunities in managing genome data
At least on the storage side, the data is very compressible. A LZ77 variant for genomic data called GDC [1] got a compression ratio of ∼9500, reducing the incremental size from 100GB to about 10 MB.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sun.aei.polsl.pl&#x2F;REFRESH&#x2F;index.php?page=projects&amp;project=gdc&amp;subpage=about" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sun.aei.polsl.pl&#x2F;REFRESH&#x2F;index.php?page=projects&amp;proj...</a>