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Guillermo Dufort y Álvarez

Universidad de la República de UruguayORCID 0000-0001-6125-5603Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 2 Research Focus:dimensionality reduction· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 2 Organism:human· 1 Approach:simulation· 1 Research Focus:software / tool· 1 Research Focus:variant calling· 1

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BioinformaticsBioinformatics AdvancesPeer-reviewedJan 1, 2022

Nanopore quality score resolution can be reduced with little effect on downstream analysis

Martin Rivara-Espasandín, Lucía Balestrazzi, Guillermo Dufort y Álvarez…·Álvaro Martín

The paper shows that quantizing nanopore quality scores has minimal impact on downstream analysis and suggests using lossy compression for storage savings.

9 citations

humanwhole-genome sequencing

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BioinformaticsBioinformaticsPeer-reviewedJun 9, 2021

RENANO: a REference-based compressor for NANOpore FASTQ files

Guillermo Dufort y Álvarez, G. Seroussi, Pablo Smircich…·Álvaro Martín

RENANO improves nanopore FASTQ compression by 39.8% for base call sequences using reference-based methods, with overall improvements of 12.7% in some scenarios.

17 citations

whole-genome sequencingstatistical model

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