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Table 1 List of splittable Codecs considered in our experiments

From: FASTA/Q data compressors for MapReduce-Hadoop genomics: space and time savings made easy

Compressor

Input FormatType

Implementation

BZIP2 [6]

Any file

HS

LZ4 [5]

Any file

HS

ZSTD [17]

Any file

HS

DSRC [16]

FASTQ files

HS/HU

Fqzcomp [18]

FASTQ files

HU

MFCompress [19]

FASTA files

HU

SPRING [15]

FASTA/Q files

HU

  1. For each splittable Codec, it is reported: (1) the originating compressor; (2) the input format it supports; (3) whether or not it has been developed using our Splittable Compressor Meta-Codec (HS) or our Universal Compressor Meta-Codec (HU) or directly supported (HS)
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BMC Bioinformatics

ISSN: 1471-2105

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