Table 8 Average compression ratio (%) of samples by differing number of reads (million reads per sample).

From: Lossless and reference-free compression of FASTQ/A files using GeneSqueeze

Number of reads

Gzip (%)

SPRING (%)

GeneSqueeze (%)

1–20

22.11

9.01

8.99

20–35

20.33

6.43

6.25

35–65

18.69

4.31

4.57

215–224

32.63

14.56

18.76

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