Compressing DNA sequence databases with coil

Background: Publicly available DNA sequence databases such as GenBank are large, and are growing at an exponential rate. The sheer volume of data being dealt with presents serious storage and data communications problems. Currently, sequence data is usually kept in large "flat files," which are then compressed using standard Lempel-Ziv (gzip) compression

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: W. Timothy J. White, Michael D. Hendy
• Keywords: BMCBI 2008, Databases, DNA Sequence, Sequence Database