[1][2] The standard is composed of different parts, each one addressing a specific aspect, such as compression, metadata association, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and a reference software for data decoding.
Together with the reference decoder software, commercial and open source[3] implementations started to be available in 2019, covering progressively more of the published parts of the standard.
Availability of large collections of genomic information has now entered everyday practice and has become a cornerstone of a number of disciplines, ranging from biological research to personalized medicine in the clinic.
Conceptually, such requirements lead to the definition of a number of mutually interrelated mechanisms, which are summarized in the following list: In turn, some of these topic have been collected together, in order to make the standard easier to understand and implement.
ISO/IEC 23092-3 specifies a metadata format and provides genomic data representation APIs to support interoperability among existing tools and systems.
Part 5 provides a means to test and validate the correct implementation of the MPEG-G technology in different devices and applications to ensure the interoperability among all systems.