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Author Archives: Simon Thornber
Posted on May 4, 2012 by 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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Posted on April 27, 2012 by Simon Thornber
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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Posted on April 18, 2012 by Simon Thornber
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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Posted on April 16, 2012 by Simon Thornber
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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Posted on April 3, 2012 by Simon Thornber
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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Posted on March 30, 2012 by Simon Thornber
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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Tagged compression algorithms, next-generation sequencing, open source, sequence squeeze
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Posted on March 13, 2012 by Simon Thornber
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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Posted on February 16, 2012 by Simon Thornber
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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Posted on September 21, 2011 by Simon Thornber
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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Posted on August 12, 2011 by Simon Thornber
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