US Patent Issued to Pusan National University Industry-University Cooperation Foundation on April 7 for "Method and apparatus for compressing fastq data through character frequency-based sequence reordering" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,491, issued on April 7, was assigned to Pusan National University Industry-University Cooperation Foundation (Busan, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for compressing fastq data through character frequency-based sequence reordering" was invented by Giltae Song (Busan, South Korea) and Dohyeon Lee (Busan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for decompressing FASTQ data through character frequency-based sequence reordering implemented by a computer apparatus, the method including separating genome sequencing data into components of an identifier, a nucleotide sequence read, and prediction quality informa...