Table 2 Comparison results of compression rates
From: CMIC: an efficient quality score compressor with random access functionality
Dataset | Compression rates (bits per quality score) | CMIC File Size versus | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CMIC | LCQS | AQUa | 7-zip | Gzip | LCQS | AQUa | 7-zip | Gzip | |
1 | 2.10 | 2.27 | – | 2.54 | 2.79 |  − 8.13% |  −  |  − 20.99% |  − 33.17% |
2 | 2.75 | 3.05 | 3.38 | 3.37 | 3.74 |  − 10.71% |  − 22.78% |  − 22.46% |  − 36.03% |
3 | 2.31 | 2.38 | – | 2.85 | 3.05 |  − 2.96% |  −  |  − 23.42% |  − 31.95% |
4 | 2.01 | 2.04 | 2.52 | 2.44 | 2.86 |  − 1.49% |  − 25.64% |  − 21.82% |  − 42.51% |
5 | 1.33 | 1.74 | – | 2.12 | 2.59 |  − 30.65% | – |  − 59.07% |  − 94.05% |
6 | 1.38 | 1.70 | – | 2.08 | 2.54 |  − 23.34% | – |  − 50.52% |  − 83.91% |
7 | 4.13 | 4.68 | 4.91 | 5.09 | 5.26 |  − 13.35% |  − 18.78% |  − 23.17% |  − 27.17% |
8 | 4.20 | 4.75 | 5.02 | 5.15 | 5.32 |  − 13.14% |  − 19.73% |  − 22.65% |  − 26.67% |
9 | 1.01 | 1.16 | 1.30 | 1.28 | 1.37 |  − 15.08% |  − 28.31% |  − 26.43% |  − 35.45% |
10 | 2.47 | 2.50 | 3.02 | 2.96 | 3.44 |  − 1.05% |  − 22.32% |  − 19.96% |  − 39.17% |
11 | 3.14 | 3.82 | – | 4.23 | 4.52 |  − 21.91% |  −  |  − 34.95% |  − 44.03% |