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Table 4 Compression of Quality Scores: Blue color represents original file size

From: MZPAQ: a FASTQ data compression tool

Dataset

Method

Compression size (MB)

Compression ratio

SRR554369

Original

blue167.4

 
 

gzip

64.7

2.59

 

bzip2

57.6

2.91

 

LZMA

57.0

2.94

 

Leon

64.6

2.59

 

SCALCE

52.0

3.22

 

Slimfastq

green47.8

green3.50

 

LFQC

47.6

3.52

SRR327342

Original

blue962.3

 
 

gzip

428.6

2.25

 

bzip2

405.8

2.37

 

LZMA

383.5

2.51

 

Leon

429.1

2.24

 

SCALCE

349.3

2.75

 

Slimfastq

green334.9

green2.87

 

LFQC

332.0

2.89

MH0001

Original

blue523.8

 
 

gzip

184.4

2.84

 

bzip2

173.5

3.02

 

LZMA

165.9

3.16

 

Leon

183.9

2.85

 

SCALCE

297.5

1.76

 

Slimfastq

green144.8

green3.62

 

LFQC

142.3

3.68

SRR1284073

Original

blue649.6

 
 

gzip

308.7

2.10

 

bzip2

283.6

2.29

 

LZMA

green280.5

green2.32

 

Leon

308.6

2.10

 

SCALCE

N/A

N/A

 

Slimfastq

N/A

N/A

 

LFQC

250.7

2.59

SRR870667

Original

blue7,546.1

 
 

gzip

3021.5

2.50

 

bzip2

2780.7

2.71

 

LZMA

2668.8

2.83

 

Leon

3022.4

2.50

 

SCALCE

2365.0

3.19

 

Slimfastq

green2281.7

green3.31

 

LFQC

2259.9

3.34

ERR174310

Original

blue21,173.1

 
 

gzip

8525.8

2.48

 

bzip2

7439.9

2.85

 

LZMA

7397.0

2.86

 

Leon

8533.3

2.48

 

SCALCE

6738.0

3.14

 

Slimfastq

green6295.0

green3.36

 

LFQC

6103.0

3.47

  1. Best results are bold faced and second to best are colored green. N/A refers to unsuccessful cases