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  • 1Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.

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Summary

We developed a new compression method for BUS files, achieving smaller file sizes and faster speeds than existing tools like gzip. This significantly reduces data storage needs for single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) experiments.

Area of Science:

  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Biology
  • Data Compression

Background:

  • Large datasets in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) present storage and processing challenges.
  • Existing compression methods for BUS (an output format for transcript quantification) may not offer optimal speed and size reduction.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a novel compression scheme for BUS files.
  • To implement this algorithm within the BUStools software suite.
  • To evaluate the performance of the new compression method against established tools.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a new compression algorithm specifically for BUS files.
  • Implementation of the algorithm in the BUStools software.
  • Benchmarking compression and decompression speeds and file sizes against gzip and zstd using 533 scRNA-seq BUS files (1TB total).

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Main Results:

  • The new compression scheme achieves 1.5x smaller file sizes compared to gzip and zstd.
  • Compression speeds are 2.2x faster than the fastest gzip option.
  • Decompression speeds are 35% slower than the fastest zstd option, but still significantly faster than gzip.
  • The dataset of 1TB was reduced to 122GB, an 8.3x file size reduction.

Conclusions:

  • The developed compression scheme offers a significant improvement in file size reduction for BUS files.
  • The method provides a favorable balance between compression speed and file size, outperforming gzip and offering competitive performance against zstd.
  • This advancement can lead to substantial savings in data storage and improved efficiency in scRNA-seq data analysis pipelines.