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Table 1 Parameter settings for the experiments

From: Controlling the signal: Practical privacy protection of genomic data sharing through Beacon services

Parameter

Notation

Setting

Size of pool

n

250

Number of SNVs

m

400,000

Maximal allowable false positive rate

α

0.05

Sequencing error rate

δ

0.000001

Number of sampled query sequences

q

5

Number of examined neighbors

l

2

Percentage of flipped answers

k

5

Noise level in the Random Flip method

ε

0.75

Maximal allowable power in the query budget method

β

0.9