4 papers
The Power of Word-Frequency Based Alignment-Free Functions: a Comprehensive Large-scale Experimental Analysis -- Version 3
Giuseppe Cattaneo, Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Raffaele Giancarlo +2
Motivation: Alignment-free (AF) distance/similarity functions are a key tool for sequence analysis. Experimental studies on real datasets abound and, to some extent, there are also…
On the Reliability of the PNU for Source Camera Identification Tasks
Andrea Bruno, Giuseppe Cattaneo, Paola Capasso
The PNU is an essential and reliable tool to perform SCI and, during the years, became a standard de-facto for this task in the forensic field. In this paper, we show that, althoug…
FASTA/Q Data Compressors for MapReduce-Hadoop Genomics:Space and Time Savings Made Easy -- Version 1
Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Francesco Palini, Giuseppe Cattaneo +1
Motivation: Storage of genomic data is a major cost for the Life Sciences, effectively addressed mostly via specialized data compression methods. For the same reasons of abundance…
Analyzing Big Datasets of Genomic Sequences: Fast and Scalable Collection of k-mer Statistics
Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Mara Sorella, Giuseppe Cattaneo +2
Distributed approaches based on the map-reduce programming paradigm have started to be proposed in the bioinformatics domain, due to the large amount of data produced by the next-g…