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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
May. 09, 2012
Carlos H. Cardonha, Sao Paulo, BR;
Robert R. Friedlander, Southbury, CT (US);
Ricardo G. Herrmann, Sao Paulo, BR;
James R. Kraemer, Santa Fe, NM (US);
Julio Nogima, Londrina, BR;
Carlos H. Cardonha, Sao Paulo, BR;
Robert R. Friedlander, Southbury, CT (US);
Ricardo G. Herrmann, Sao Paulo, BR;
James R. Kraemer, Santa Fe, NM (US);
Julio Nogima, Londrina, BR;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, computer product and computer system of transmitting a compressed genome of an organism: a computer at a source reading an uncompressed sequence and a reference genome from a repository; the computer comparing nucleotides of the genetic sequence of the organism to nucleotides from a reference genome, to find differences where nucleotides of the genetic sequence of the organism which are different from the nucleotides of the reference genome; the computer using the differences to create surprisal data, the surprisal data comprising a starting location of the differences within the reference genome, and the nucleotides from the genetic sequence of the organism which are different from the nucleotides of the reference genome; and the computer transmitting, to a destination, a compressed genome comprising: surprisal data and an indication of the reference genome, discarding sequences of nucleotides that are the same in the sequence of the organism and reference genome.