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Area of Science:

  • Bioinformatics
  • Genomics
  • Data Science

Background:

  • Metagenomic data volumes are rapidly increasing, posing storage and analysis challenges.
  • Reference-based compression offers high compression ratios but requires suitable reference genomes.
  • Existing reference databases are too large and redundant for efficient metagenomic compression.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel pipeline for generating simplified and tailored reference genomes.
  • To enable efficient reference-based compression for large metagenomic cohorts.
  • To improve data transfer, storage, and analysis of metagenomic datasets.

Main Methods:

  • A novel pipeline was developed to construct customized reference genomes.
  • Generated reference genomes ranged from 2.4 to 3.9 GB for 29 metagenomic datasets.
  • Evaluated the compression performance of the customized reference genomes.

Main Results:

  • Reference-based compression achieved compression ratios exceeding 20 for human whole-genome data.
  • Achieved compression ratios up to 33.8 across all tested samples.
  • Demonstrated a 4.5-fold improvement compared to standard Gzip compression.

Conclusions:

  • The developed pipeline successfully generates tailored reference genomes for metagenomic data compression.
  • Reference-based compression with customized genomes offers significant improvements in data reduction.
  • This approach has broad potential for optimizing metagenomic data handling and analysis.