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From: Handling the data management needs of high-throughput sequencing data: SpeedGene, a compression algorithm for the efficient storage of genetic data

Figure 3

Plots of the compression rate vs. MAF. In the left plot, the compression factors of the three sub-algorithms are plotted against different MAF levels. In the right plot, the number of Bits needed for storing one genotype is plotted against different MAF levels. 1000 genotypes are simulated for one SNP at each MAF level. The space needed to store this information for one SNP in the LINKAGE/PLINK format is 4000 Bytes. The compression factor is the number of times by which the compressed file is smaller than the original file size (4000 Bytes).

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