The future of sequence archiving

The future of sequence archiving and the role of data compression is explored in a new paper from EBI to be published in Gigascience. Planned for the first issue of the journal, the paper is available pre-publication here. In the paper, we propose a way forward through the use a graded system in which the ease of reproduction of a sequencing-based experiment and the relative availability of a sample for resequencing be used as a means to define the level of lossy compression to apply to the stored data.