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Table 4 Compression performance of MassComp and MS-Numpress, the latter run with numLin, numPic and zlib as it was found to offer the best performance

From: MassComp, a lossless compressor for mass spectrometry data

File ID

mzXML

MassComp

C.R.

mzML

MS-Numpress

C.R.

MSV000080896

      

9122

25

11.64

53.44

53.85

21.84

59.44

9123

25

11.58

53.68

53.77

21.81

59.44

9124

25

11.72

53.12

54.53

22.07

59.53

MSV000080905

      

54

7.1

4.74

33.24

20.91

14.75

29.46

05

7.7

5.05

34.42

22.17

15.05

32.12

07

9

5.23

41.89

22.92

15.25

33.46

MSV000081123

      

neg42

11

7.045

35.95

34.46

25.73

25.33

pos75

6.7

4.568

31.82

20.34

14.21

30.14

TAG71

3.9

2.782

28.67

13.36

10.52

21.26

110

69

27.08

60.75

80.92

25.42 ∗

68.59

121

2,500

1,104.93

55.80

2,587.45

307.07 ∗

88.13

ADH

1,900

469.51

75.29

1,965.63

145.25 ∗

92.61

  1. *Lossy compression
  2. Since MassComp works on mzXML files and MS-Numpress on mzML files, an exact comparison is not possible, and hence we refrain from highlighting the smallest compressed sizes in bold. All sizes are expressed in MBs