Prefix-free parsing for merging big BWTs

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Main Authors: Diaz-Dominguez, Diego, Gagie, Travis, Guerrini, Veronica, Langmead, Ben, Liptak, Zsuzsanna, Manzini, Giovanni, Masillo, Francesco, Shivakumar, Vikram
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Published: 2025
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author Diaz-Dominguez, Diego
Gagie, Travis
Guerrini, Veronica
Langmead, Ben
Liptak, Zsuzsanna
Manzini, Giovanni
Masillo, Francesco
Shivakumar, Vikram
author_facet Diaz-Dominguez, Diego
Gagie, Travis
Guerrini, Veronica
Langmead, Ben
Liptak, Zsuzsanna
Manzini, Giovanni
Masillo, Francesco
Shivakumar, Vikram
contents When building Burrows-Wheeler Transforms (BWTs) of truly huge datasets, prefix-free parsing (PFP) can use an unreasonable amount of memory. In this paper we show how if a dataset can be broken down into small datasets that are not very similar to each other -- such as collections of many copies of genomes of each of several species, or collections of many copies of each of the human chromosomes -- then we can drastically reduce PFP's memory footprint by building the BWTs of the small datasets and then merging them into the BWT of the whole dataset.
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spellingShingle Prefix-free parsing for merging big BWTs
Diaz-Dominguez, Diego
Gagie, Travis
Guerrini, Veronica
Langmead, Ben
Liptak, Zsuzsanna
Manzini, Giovanni
Masillo, Francesco
Shivakumar, Vikram
Data Structures and Algorithms
When building Burrows-Wheeler Transforms (BWTs) of truly huge datasets, prefix-free parsing (PFP) can use an unreasonable amount of memory. In this paper we show how if a dataset can be broken down into small datasets that are not very similar to each other -- such as collections of many copies of genomes of each of several species, or collections of many copies of each of the human chromosomes -- then we can drastically reduce PFP's memory footprint by building the BWTs of the small datasets and then merging them into the BWT of the whole dataset.
title Prefix-free parsing for merging big BWTs
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03294