In image compression, a large file that could be cumbersome to store or share loses a small amount of visual information. This “lossiness” largely preserves the image while vastly reducing its file size—and serves as the inspiration for a new research direction in genomics, according to Justin Pritchard, assistant professor of biomedical engineering.
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