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Cross chromosomal similarity for DNA sequence compression.

Choi-Ping Paula Wu¹, Ngai-Fong Law, Wan-Chi Siu

¹Centre for Signal Processing, Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. paul.a@polyu.edu.hk

|September 17, 2008

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Discovering cross-chromosomal similarities significantly boosts DNA compression. Analyzing S. cerevisiae chromosomes reveals that leveraging similarities between different chromosomes can reduce storage space by an additional 23%.

Keywords:

DNA S. cerevisiae chromosome prediction sequence

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Area of Science:

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Genomics

Background:

Current DNA compression methods rely on intra-chromosomal repeat detection, yielding limited compression gains due to short repeat lengths (approx. 4.5% of sequence).
Existing algorithms often overlook similarities that exist between different chromosomal sequences.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the utility of cross-chromosomal similarities for enhancing DNA sequence compression efficiency.
To quantify the extent of sequence similarity within and between the 16 chromosomes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Main Methods:

Analysis of sequence similarity across all pairs of 16 S. cerevisiae chromosomes.
Identification and quantification of both self-chromosomal (intra-chromosomal) and cross-chromosomal (inter-chromosomal) repeated subsequences.
Estimation of potential storage space reduction by incorporating cross-chromosomal predictions into compression algorithms.

Main Results:

On average, 10% of subsequences between any two S. cerevisiae chromosomes are similar, with 8% originating from cross-chromosomal predictions.
Across all 16 chromosomes, 18% of subsequences are similar, with only 1.2% from self-chromosomal prediction and the majority from cross-chromosomal prediction.
Incorporating both self- and cross-chromosomal predictions can achieve an average additional storage reduction of 23%.

Conclusions:

Cross-chromosomal similarities represent a significant, largely untapped resource for improving DNA sequence compression.
Leveraging inter-chromosomal sequence relationships is crucial for maximizing compression ratios in genomic data.
The findings suggest a new paradigm for DNA compression algorithms that exploit both intra- and inter-chromosomal sequence homology.