Just published: 'The future of DNA sequence archiving'

Our latest paper has been published in the inaugural issue of Gigascience. In this commentary, our starting point is the existence of a viable compression method, CRAM - currently in late beta and soon to be released in full production - in which compression can be applied with varying levels of intensity to different data sets. Our goal with the paper is to stimulate the broadest possible community discussion about exactly where the most aggressive forms of compression should be applied and where the approach should be far more cautious.