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CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PetaGene announced today that their PetaSuite software has been selected to compress the genomics data sets for AstraZeneca’s Centre for Genomics Research ...

The steady progress being made in “precision,” or genomic medicine is bringing with it a growing need to get a better handle on soaring data volumes. For example, a single human genome sequence ...

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $1.3 million grant to researchers at the University of Arizona to develop open-source software that will enable health care professionals and scientists ...

"Data compression software has the potential to address some of the most significant data storage, computing and sharing challenges facing biomedical researchers," the NIH said in its announcement.

“Irregular applications, such as graph analytics and sparse linear algebra, exhibit frequent indirect, data-dependent accesses to single or short sequences of elements that cause high main memory ...

A novel technique rethinks hardware data compression to free up more memory used by computers and mobile devices, allowing them to run faster and perform more tasks simultaneously. A novel technique ...

Epic Games just made one of the most strategic acquisitions in its history by buying RAD Game Tools. Epic Games now owns RAD Game Tools, the company behind some of the most-used game environment tools ...

Israeli startup, Onavo, was acquired by Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), according to an Onavo blog post Monday. Onavo makes data compression software, which Facebook said it planned to use in promoting the ...