Convenor: Marco Mattavelli
Professor
EPFL
WG08, “MPEG Genomic Coding” Working Group, develops standards for the efficient compression, transport, access and processing of genome sequencing data, metadata, primary and secondary analysis data, and related annotations. The MPEG-G family of standards include: file and transport formats, various options for the indexing, structuring and classification of genomic data, as well as compression technology for raw reads, aligned reads, metadata and annotation data. In addition standard APIs support interoperability for the selective protection of the compressed data and complex queries of reads and metadata in the compressed domain.