Light-weight reference-based compression of FASTQ data

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 5 The compression ratios of LW-FQZip on the three components of FASTQ files

Data	Metadata	Nucleotide sequence	Quality scores
ERR231645	0.027	0.091	0.421
ERR005143	0.021	0.159	0.364
SRR352384	0.024	0.151	0.130
SRR801793	0.025	0.089	0.371
SRR554369	0.029	0.117	0.346
ERR654984	0.024	0.032	0.285
ERR233152	0.015	0.190	0.238
SRR327342	0.014	0.155	0.426
Average	0.021	0.134	0.268

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