2 papers
q-bio.GN2021
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…
cs.DC2020
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…