Conveners
Streaming Genomes with MPEG-G the New ISO Standard for Genomics Data?
- Claudio Alberti (GenomSys)
Description
This presentation introduces the essential features of MPEG-G, the emerging ISO standard for genome sequencing data compression, storage and transport. MPEG-G, is an ISO standardization initiative addressing the problems and limitations currently faced by applications relying on commonly used legacy formats.
The standard is currently in its final development stage and it is planned to be published in early 2019. The objective is to provide compression and transport technologies yielding efficient, versatile and economical handling of sequencing data and associated information. Beside efficient compression and native transport capabilities, notable features include data streaming, selective access to compressed data, data aggregation, file annotation, conversion to legacy formats, enforcement of privacy rules, selective encryption of sequencing data and metadata. These features make MPEG-G the technology base for supporting the interoperability of many complex use cases and associated implementations.
