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We present a Compression Tool, "GenBit Compress", for genetic sequences based on our new proposed "GenBit Compress Algorithm". Our Tool achieves the best compression ratios for Entire Genome (DNA sequences) . Significantly better…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2010-07-15 P. Raja Rajeswari , Allam Apparo , V. K. Kumar

DNA sequence encoding is fundamental to gene function prediction, protein synthesis, and diverse downstream biological tasks. Despite the substantial progress achieved by large-scale DNA sequence pretraining, existing studies have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhijiang Tang , Jiaxin Qi , Yan Cui , Jinli Ou , Yuhua Zheng , Jianqiang Huang

Machine- and deep-learning approaches for biological sequences depend critically on transforming raw DNA, RNA, and protein FASTA files into informative numerical representations. However, this process is often fragmented across multiple…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-01 Hamid Ismail , Marwan Bikdash

Genomes may be analyzed from an information viewpoint as very long strings, containing functional elements of variable length, which have been assembled by evolution. In this work an innovative information theory based algorithm is…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2020-09-23 Vincenzo Bonnici , Giuditta Franco , Vincenzo Manca

Motivation: High-coverage sequencing data have significant, yet hard to exploit, redundancy. Most FASTQ compressors cannot efficiently compress the DNA stream of large datasets, since the redundancy between overlapping reads cannot be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-19 Szymon Grabowski , Sebastian Deorowicz , Łukasz Roguski

The cost of DNA sequencing has dropped exponentially over the past decade, making genomic data accessible to a growing number of scientists. In bioinformatics, localization of short DNA sequences (reads) within large genomic sequences is…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-16 Robin Kobus , André Müller , Daniel Jünger , Christian Hundt , Bertil Schmidt

Many modern biological assays, including RNA sequencing, yield integer-valued counts that reflect the number of molecules detected. These measurements are often not at the desired resolution: while the unit of interest is typically a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Nic Fishman , Gokul Gowri , Tanush Kumar , Jiaqi Lu , Valentin de Bortoli , Jonathan S. Gootenberg , Omar Abudayyeh

Genome assembly using high throughput data with short reads, arguably, remains an unresolvable task in repetitive genomes, since when the length of a repeat exceeds the read length, it becomes difficult to unambiguously connect the flanking…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2013-07-31 Viraj Deshpande , Eric DK Fung , Son Pham , Vineet Bafna

DNA sequencing technology has advanced to a point where storage is becoming the central bottleneck in the acquisition and mining of more data. Large amounts of data are vital for genomics research, and generic compression tools, while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Bobbie Chern , Idoia Ochoa , Alexandros Manolakos , Albert No , Kartik Venkat , Tsachy Weissman

Similar to natural language models, pre-trained genome language models are proposed to capture the underlying intricacies within genomes with unsupervised sequence modeling. They have become essential tools for researchers and practitioners…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-04 Siyuan Li , Zedong Wang , Zicheng Liu , Di Wu , Cheng Tan , Jiangbin Zheng , Yufei Huang , Stan Z. Li

High read depth can be used to assemble short sequence repeats. The existing genome assemblers fail in repetitive regions of longer than average read. I propose a new algorithm for a DNA assembly which uses the relative frequency of reads…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2015-01-08 Robert M. Nowak

Repository summarization is a crucial research question in development and maintenance for software engineering. Existing repository summarization techniques primarily focus on summarizing code according to the directory tree, which is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yifeng Zhu , Xianlin Zhao , Xutian Li , Yanzhen Zou , Haizhuo Yuan , Yue Wang , Bing Xie

We present the GeneScore, a concept of feature reduction for Machine Learning analysis of biomedical data. Using expert knowledge, the GeneScore integrates different molecular data types into a single score. We show that the GeneScore is…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-15 Alexander Denker , Anastasia Steshina , Theresa Grooss , Frank Ueckert , Sylvia Nürnberg

Pyrosequencing is among the emerging sequencing techniques, capable of generating upto 100,000 overlapping reads in a single run. This technique is much faster and cheaper than the existing state of the art sequencing technique such as…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2016-09-08 Fahad Saeed , Ashfaq Khokhar , Osvaldo Zagordi , Niko Beerenwinkel

The study of functional genomics--particularly in non-model organisms has been dramatically improved over the last few years by use of transcriptomes and RNAseq. While these studies are potentially extremely powerful, a computationally…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2013-07-25 Matthew D MacManes , Michael B Eisen

Quorum systems are a powerful mechanism for ensuring the consistency of replicated data. Production systems usually opt for majority quorums due to their simplicity and fault tolerance, but majority quorum systems provide poor throughput…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Michael Whittaker , Aleksey Charapko , Joseph M. Hellerstein , Heidi Howard , Ion Stoica

DNA read mapping is a ubiquitous task in bioinformatics, and many tools have been developed to solve the read mapping problem. However, there are two trends that are changing the landscape of readmapping: First, new sequencing technologies…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2017-02-09 Jens Quedenfeld , Sven Rahmann

This paper studies the haplotype assembly problem from an information theoretic perspective. A haplotype is a sequence of nucleotide bases on a chromosome, often conveniently represented by a binary string, that differ from the bases in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Hongbo Si , Haris Vikalo , Sriram Vishwanath

As the global need for large-scale data storage is rising exponentially, existing storage technologies are approaching their theoretical and functional limits in terms of density and energy consumption, making DNA based storage a potential…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Yotam Nahum , Eyar Ben-Tolila , Leon Anavy

Prokaryotic organisms usually possess compact genomes, which are particularly suitable to complete sequencing with existing technologies, which led to an escalating accumulation of available genome data. In response to this ever-expanding…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-05 Giorgio Gonnella