Author Archives: Simon Thornber

Once again we hear from Michael Klepper, who headed up the security assessment for the Sequence Services Phase 2 proofs of concept. In his last entry, Michael discussed the nature of modern security threats. In this entry, he discusses AT&T’s … Continue reading

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Security testing has been an important step in both Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the Sequence Services project. Last year, AT&T Consulting application security services evaluated the four Phase 1 proofs of concept, and we called on them again … Continue reading

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While many of the Sequence Squeeze entries came from individuals, one contribution came from an institution: the department of electronics, telecommunications, and informatics and the Institute of Electronics and Telematics Engineering (IEETA) at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. The IEETA … Continue reading

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James Bonfield of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has had an interest in data compression since his teenage years working on a “trusty BBC Micro.” More recently, he developed the ZTR file format for compressed ABI capillary traces and the … Continue reading

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One of our Sequence Squeeze entrants is a veteran of compression competitions. Matt Mahoney’s context-mixing compression algorithm implementing in the PAQ series of open source compressors moved to the top of several benchmarks in 2004 and won the Calgary compression … Continue reading

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As a preview to the announcement of the winner of the Sequence Squeeze Competition, I’ve asked some of the participants to share the rationale and approach of their algorithms. Our first blog comes from Daniel Jones, a graduate student in … Continue reading

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If you haven’t been tracking the Sequence Squeeze Competition, you’ll want to watch the leaderboard over the next few days. Entries have been flying in since the weekend, and only today, the long-standing leading algorithm was pushed off the top … Continue reading

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The Sequence Squeeze Competition has turned into a bit of horse race a month out from the competition end date of 15 March 2012. For those not aware of this competition, the Pistoia Alliance is awarding $15,000 to the developer … Continue reading

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The deadline for submitting written responses to the Sequence Services Phase 2 RFP is this Friday, 23 September 2011. Interest in the RFP has been keen, and we look forward to seeing the submissions. All proposals will be formally presented … Continue reading

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I just added a few more questions to our Sequence Services Phase 2 FAQ. Be sure to check it out, and if you have further questions, post a comment so that we can address it.

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