A Novel Algorithm for DNA Sequence Compression

Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) sequences vary in terms of their size and fall within the range of billions of nucleotides. The value increases to twice or thrice its original value annually. Techniques of data compression and related methods that originate from the information theory are frequently understood as relevant for the field of data communication, exploration, and storage. In the present situation, it is vital to store data for biological sequences. The compressBest algorithm proposed in the paper for the compression of DNA sequences helps attain a better compression ratio and is much faster when compared to the existing compression techniques. compressBest algorithm is applicable to compression of DNA sequences with a reduction in storage space. The proposed algorithm is tested over the data from the UCI repository.