142. MPEG Meeting
The 142nd MPEG meeting will take place in Antalya (Turkey) from the 24th - 28th of April 2023. The purpose of this face-to-face meeting is to foster collaborations between members and across working groups in order to accelerate the standardization process....
139. MPEG Virtual Meeting
The 139th MPEG meeting was held online from July 18th to 22nd 2022. Many important topics have been discussed, and progress and improvements have been made in the specific ISO 23092 MPEG-G subject. During the Meeting MPEG published standard documents for MPEG-G...
137. MPEG Virtual Meeting
The 137th MPEG meeting was held digitally from January 17th to 21st 2022. Many important topics have been discussed, and progress and improvements have been made in the specific ISO 23092 MPEG-G subject. MPEG Genomic Coding evaluated Responses on New Advanced Genomics...
135. MPEG Virtual Meeting
The 135th MPEG meeting was held online from July 12th until 16th, 2021. Many important topics have been discussed, and progress and improvements have been made in the specific ISO 23092 MPEG-G subject. The current MPEG-G standard series (ISO/IEC 23092) addresses the...
134. MPEG Virtual Meeting
In April 2021, from the 26th until the 30th, the 134th MPEG meeting was held digitally regarding the COVID-19 situation. Many important topics have been discussed, and progress and improvements have been made in the specific ISO 23092 MPEG-G subject. MPEG announced a...
133. MPEG Virtual Meeting
From January 11th until 15th, 2021, with the still COVID-19 situation ongoing, the 133rd MPEG meeting has been held again digitally. Many important topics have been discussed, and progress and improvements have been made in the specific ISO 23092 MPEG-G subject....
132. MPEG Virtual Meeting
With the ongoing COVID-19 situation, the 132nd MPEG meeting has been held again digitally from October 12th until 16th, 2020. Nonetheless, many important topics have been discussed, and progress and improvements have been made in the specific ISO 23092 MPEG-G subject....
131. MPEG Virtual Meeting
Due to the COVID-19 situation, the 131st MPEG meeting has been held online from July 6th until 10th, 2020. Nonetheless, many important topics have been discussed, and progress and improvements have been made in the specific ISO 23092 MPEG-G subject. WG11 (MPEG) issues...
130th MPEG Virtual Meeting
Traditionally regrouping all the world's MPEG experts in a single location, the 130th MPEG meeting has been held online due to the COVID-19 situation, from April 20th to 24th. Nonetheless, lots of important topics have been discussed and many progress and improvements...
Publication of MPEG-G International Standard for Coding of Genomic Information (Part 2)
The extensive usage of high-throughput deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequencing technologies opens up new perspectives in the treatment of several diseases and enables the implementation of a new approach to healthcare known as “precision medicine”. DNA...
Publication of MPEG-G International Standard for Transport and Storage of Genomic Information (Part 1)
The extensive usage of high-throughput deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequencing technologies opens up new perspectives in the treatment of several diseases and enables the implementation of a new approach to healthcare known as “precision medicine”. DNA...
Details about MPEG-G Part 1 – ISO/IEC 23092/1
Part 1: Transport and Storage of Genomic InformationMPEG-G specifies a digital container format for transmission and storage of the genomic data compressed according to Part 2 of the standard. In MPEG jargon the container format used for the transport of...
Access Unit in MPEG-G format
Access Unit is the fundamental structure allowing random and selective access to genomic data. Genomic records, are compressed in MPEG-G. Thus, in order to search them, filter, and access, all structures of the MPEG-G shown on Figure 1, contain metadata,...
Details about MPEG-G Part 2 – ISO/IEC 23092/2
Part 2: Coding of Genomic InformationGenomic Records are classified into six Data Classes according to the result of the primary alignment(s) of their reads against one or more reference sequences as shown in Table 1. Records are classified according to...
4th MPEG Workshop on Genomic Information Representation
A workshop on applications of genomic information processing was hosted by Tencent in Shenzhen on 13th October 2018, the day after the closing of the 124th MPEG meeting in Macau. The Workshop has provided an overview of MPEG-G the new ISO standard on the compression...
MPEG-G paper on BioRXiv
MPEG-G, a standard to compress DNA reads
A workshop on applications of genomic information processing will be held in Shenzhen on 13th October 2018 one day after the 124th MPEG meeting.
Joint MPEG-GA4GH Workshop on Genomic Sequencing Data Compression
GA4GH and MPEG are organizing a joint call for submission to collect contributions on emerging and new approaches to genome sequencing data compression. The selected contributions will be presented during a workshop to be held in Basel on 3rd October 2018.
3rd MPEG Workshop on Genomic Information Representation
A workshop on applications of genomic information processing has been held on 18th April 2018 co-located with the 122nd MPEG meeting in San Diego. The Workshop explored the opportunities for improved genome sequencing data processing services enabled by...
2nd MPEG Workshop on Genomic Information Representation
Workshop on Processing of Genomic Information: From Standards to Deployment 13:30 - 19:00, 19th July 2017 – Torino (Italy) Sala dei Mappamondi, Academy of Sciences, Via Accademia delle Scienze, 6, Torino Organized by Italian Institute for...