This reads like a puff piece for MPEG-G, which will presumbaly be as patent-encumbered as every other MPEG standard. The double power law for mutation distance

This reads like a puff piece for MPEG-G, which will presumbaly be as patent-encumbered as every other MPEG standard. The double power law for mutation distance is interesting, but the application is feeding an entropy coder more accurate probabilities of match distances. Any decent entropy coder would implicitly discover the distribution after a short period. There are already good compressors for genetic data. The article briefly mentions them, but oddly doesn't name them explicitly. Here's a 2013 paper summarizing the research (like compressing 6.3GB to 1.1GB or 750MB with a reference): http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0059190 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....