KungFQ: A simple and powerful approach to compress fastq files

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1837-1842

  Grassi, Elena ^a   Gregorio, Federico Di ^b   Molineris, Ivan ^a  

^a Molecular Biotechnology Center   (Italy)

^b DNDG Srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

Algorithms for data and knowledge management; Biology and genetics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE; ALGORITHMS FOR DATA AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; BIOLOGY AND GENETICS; COMPRESSION ALGORITHMS; CONSTANT MEMORY; LOSSY COMPRESSIONS; STANDARD COMPRESSION ALGORITHMS; STANDARD TOOLS;

DATA COMPRESSION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; TOOLS;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; DATA COMPRESSION; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; INTERNET; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84875283019     PISSN: 15455963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2012.123     Document Type: Article

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