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Light-weight reference-based compression of FASTQ data.

Yongpeng Zhang¹, Linsen Li², Yanli Yang³

¹College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China. 2120230303@email.szu.edu.cn.

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LW-FQZip offers efficient lossless compression for next-generation sequencing (NGS) FASTQ data. This reference-based algorithm significantly reduces data size for improved storage and transmission.

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Area of Science:

Bioinformatics
Computational Biology
Genomics

Background:

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) data volume presents significant storage and management challenges.
Reference-based compression offers superior compression ratios compared to non-reference methods.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce LW-FQZip, a novel lossless, light-weight, reference-based compression algorithm for FASTQ data.
To address the need for efficient compression of NGS data for storage and transmission.

Main Methods:

Parsing FASTQ data into metadata, short reads, and quality score streams.
Utilizing incremental and run-length-limited encoding for metadata and quality scores.
Employing a novel mapping model for efficient alignment of short reads against reference sequences.

Main Results:

LW-FQZip achieves compression ratios between 0.111-0.201 on real-world NGS datasets.
Performance is comparable or superior to existing state-of-the-art lossless NGS data compression algorithms.

Conclusions:

LW-FQZip provides an efficient solution for lossless FASTQ data compression.
The algorithm advances the state-of-the-art in NGS data storage and transmission applications.
LW-FQZip is freely available online.