Szymon Grabowski

MBGC is a specialized genome compressor for bacteria that achieves high compression ratios and speeds, outperforming existing tools on bacterial genomes.

The paper introduces an optimized, multi-threaded version of PgRC, a FASTQ compressor that improves compression time while maintaining compression ratio and decompression speed.

PgRC compresses DNA sequencing data more efficiently than existing tools while maintaining comparable decompression speed.

Whisper improves sequencing data mapping by sorting reads and using suffix arrays, achieving faster performance with comparable accuracy to Bowtie2 and BWA-MEM.