FASTA/Q data compressors for MapReduce-Hadoop genomics: space and time savings made easy.

In recent years, it has received increasing attention via the proposal of novel specialized compressors, due to the facts that (a) storage costs have become quite significant given the massive amounts of data produced by HTS technologies (see [ 2 ] for an enlightening analysis, which is still valid [ 3 , 4 ]); (b) generic compressors, even widely accepted leading methods, e.g.

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