Pistoia Alliance Spurs Development of Next-Generation Sequencing Data Compression Algorithms with US$15

The Pistoia Alliance, a precompetitive alliance of life science companies, research vendors, publishers, and academic groups, has launched the Pistoia Alliance Sequence Squeeze competition to find the best algorithm for compressing straightway-generation sequencing data. The winning entrant will receive a prize of US$15,000, which will be awarded by a prestigious judging panel that includes representatives from the BGI and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

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