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Towards scalable genomic data access

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A new format for read depth annotations in genomic data makes access to metadata more scalable and efficient.

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Fig. 1: Genomic data representation and compression.

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Hernaez, M. Towards scalable genomic data access. Nat Comput Sci 1, 391–392 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-021-00089-w

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