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BUSZ: compressed BUS files.
Pétur Helgi Einarsson1, Páll Melsted1
1Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.
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).
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.

