STORAGE, TRANSFER AND COMPRESSION OF NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING DATA

A computer appliance includes a front-end interface communicating with a client computer, a back-end interface communicating with a storage, a compressor receiving native next generation sequencing (NGS) data from an application running on the client computer via the front-end interface, the application being programmed to process native NGS data, adding a compressed form of the native NGS data into a portion of an encoded data file or data object, and storing the portion of the encoded data file or data object in the storage via the back-end interface, and a decompressor receiving a portion of an encoded data file or data object from the storage via the back-end interface, decompressing the portion of the encoded data file or data object to generate therefrom native NGS data, and transmitting the native NGS data to the client via the front-end interface, for use by the application running on the client. 种计算机设备，该计算机设备包括：前端接口，该前端接口与客户端计算机通信；后端接口，该后端接口与存储器通信；压缩器，该压缩器借助于所述前端接口从在客户端计算机上运行的应用接收原生下代测序(NGS)数据，所述应用被编