Table 5 Compression ratios of evaluated tools

Gzip

3.16

3.87

3.89

2.40

3.43

2.96

Bzip2

3.74

4.67

4.82

2.83

4.06

3.62

LZMA

4.99

5.47

5.15

2.84

4.40

3.67

Leon

5.48

7.13

6.45

2.73

5.08

3.95

SCALCE

5.97

7.96

6.32

N/A

6.20

4.98

Slimfastq

5.87

7.66

7.07

N/A

6.00

4.88

LFQC

7.02

8.06

7.18

3.22

N/A

N/A

MZPAQ

7.04

8.49

7.98

3.22

6.27

5.00