131st MPEG Virtual Meeting
Traditionally regrouping all the world's MPEG experts in a single location, the 131st MPEG meeting has been held online due to the COVID-19 situation, from July 6th to 10th.A summary of the main achievements can be found here.The MPEG-G group has issued a Call for...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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MPEG and ISO/TC 276/WG 5 have collected and evaluated the answers to the Genomic Information Compression and Storage joint Call for Proposals
At its 115th meeting, MPEG issued a Call for Proposals (CfP) for Genomic Information Compression and Storage in conjunction with the working group for standardisation of data processing and integration of the ISO Technical Committee for biotechnology...
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MPEG issues Genomic Information Compression and Storage joint Call for Proposals in conjunction with ISO/TC 276/WG 5
While routine deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequencing in the doctor's office is still many years away, some large medical centers have begun to use sequencing to identify cancer and other diseases. The introduction of high-throughput DNA sequencing has led...
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Genome compression progresses toward standardization
At its 114th meeting, MPEG has progressed its exploration of genome compression toward formal standardization. The 114th meeting included a seminar to collect additional perspectives on genome data standardization, and a review of technologies that had...
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1st MPEG Workshop on Genomic Information Representation
A seminar on Genome Compression Standardization has been held on 23rd February 2016 during the 114th MPEG meeting in San Diego. The purpose of this seminar was twofold: to raise the awareness on the need of new approaches to genome compression for the...
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MPEG explores new frontiers for coding technologies with Genome Compression
MPEG issues Call for Evidence (CfE) for Genome Compression and Storage At its 113th meeting, MPEG has taken its first formal step toward leveraging its compression expertise to code an entirely new kind of essential information, i.e. the single recipe that...
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Seminar for Genome Compression Standardization planned for the 113th MPEG meeting
A public seminar on the Prospects on Genome Compression Standardization will be held on the 20th of October 2015 during the 113th MPEG meeting in Geneva. The purpose of this seminar is twofold: to raise the awareness on the need of new approaches to genome...
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