“The genomic community was able to massively cut down sequencing time continuously since the Human Genome project in 2003, with the challenges lying now outside the wet-lab and in the analysis. The open standard MPEG-G delivers a substantial benefit in the processing time of a genomic dataset. For example, the access of multiple regions of a gene within a whole-genome sequencing dataset takes with MPEG-G only 2 seconds compared to minutes for legacy formats. ” Claudio Alberti