LW-FQZip 2: a parallelized reference-based compression of FASTQ files

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Table 1 The ten real-world FASTQ data sets used for performance evaluation

	Datasets	Platforms	Species	Read length (bp)	Size (MB)	GC content
Long-read	SRR2916693	454GS	Pseudomonas moraviensis	67-1201	425	58.8%
	SRR2994368	Illumina Miseq	Escherichia coli	70-502	4688	49.7%
	SRR3211986	Pacbio RS	Homo sapiens	2-62746	1759	39.6%
	ERR739513	MinION	Phage	5-246140	871	47.9%
	SRR3190692	Illumina MiSeq	Escherichia coli	70-602	11379	52.3%
Short-read	ERR385912	Illumina Hiseq 2000	Escherichia coli	51	641	43.5%
	ERR386131	Ion Torrent PGM	Capsicum baccatum	151	1371	50.5%
	SRR034509	Illumina Analyzer II	Escherichia coli	101	5247	52.6%
	ERR174310	Illumina Hiseq 2000	Homo sapiens	202	105122	N.A.
	ERR194147	Illumina Hiseq 2000	Homo sapiens	101	202631	40.3%

Note: The long-read data sets have variable-length reads, while the short-read data sets have fixed-length reads

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