Dr. Bernhard Balkenhol

Compression results › Protein corpus

Protein corpus

Protein sequences (amino-acid letters only): hi = Haemophilus influenzae, hs = Homo sapiens, mj = Methanococcus jannaschii, sc = Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

FileSizebbz -9bits/bytegzip -9bits/byte
hi509,51973,7391.158297,5174.671
hs3,295,7511,028,4982.4971,897,3114.605
mj448,77996,4771.720257,3734.588
sc2,900,352789,8292.1791,682,1084.640
Total7,154,4011,988,5431.888 (2.224)4,134,3094.626 (4.623)

Bits per byte = 8 × compressed size / original size. In the total row the first value is the average of the per-file rates, the value in parentheses the rate over the whole corpus.