BARCODE – A fast Lossless Read Compression tool based on Bloom Filters

BARCODE

:: DESCRIPTION

BARCODE achieves highly efficient compression by using a reference genome, but completely circumvents the need for alignment, affording a great reduction in the time needed to compress.

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::DEVELOPER

Ron Shamir’s lab

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Windows/Linux/ MacOsX
  • Python

:: DOWNLOAD

  BARCODE

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

BMC Bioinformatics. 2014;15 Suppl 9:S7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-15-S9-S7. Epub 2014 Sep 10.
Fast lossless compression via cascading Bloom filters.
Rozov R, Shamir R, Halperin E.