SACO – Sequence Alignment COmpressor

SACO

:: DESCRIPTION

SACO is a lossless compression tool for the sequences alignments found in the MAF files. SACO was designed to handle the DNA bases and gap symbols that can be found in MAF files.

::DEVELOPER

UA.PT Bioinformatics

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

::REQUIREMENTS

  • Linux / WIndows/ MacOsX
  • C Compiler

:: DOWNLOAD

 SACO

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

Luís M. O. Matos, Diogo Pratas, and Armando J. Pinho,
A Compression Model for DNA Multiple Sequence Alignment Blocks”,
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, volume 59, number 5, pages 3189-3198, May 2013. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2012.2236605