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142. MPEG Meeting

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....

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139. MPEG Virtual Meeting

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...

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137. MPEG Virtual Meeting

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...

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135. MPEG Virtual Meeting

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...

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134. MPEG Virtual Meeting

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...

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133. MPEG Virtual Meeting

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....

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132. MPEG Virtual Meeting

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....

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131. MPEG Virtual Meeting

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...

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130th MPEG Virtual Meeting

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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Details about MPEG-G Part 1 – ISO/IEC 23092/1

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 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

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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