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Table 6 Rate and MSE obtained by running SCALCE [35] and fastqz [34] on the M. musculus dataset

From: QualComp: a new lossy compressor for quality scores based on rate distortion theory

Scalce

fastqz

Error threshold

R

MSE

Quantization

R

MSE

90

0.80

7.47

70

0.05

596.15

80

0.80

7.47

50

0.05

596.15

100

0.93

6.62

40

0.05

596.15

60

0.96

5.36

30

0.67

234.36

40

1.29

3.31

20

0.46

76.19

20

1.94

1.18

10

1.04

17.83

0

2.65

0

5

1.33

3.53

   

1

2.59

0

  1. MSE obtained by SCALCE with different error thresholds and by fastqz with different quantization levels.