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RabbitTrim: An Efficient and Versatile Trimmer on Multi-Core Platforms
IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
|August 14, 2025
Summary
RabbitTrim significantly accelerates sequencing data trimming, outperforming Trimmomatic and Ktrim. This new tool leverages multi-core processors for faster, more efficient bioinformatics analysis.
Area of Science:
- Bioinformatics
- Computational Biology
- Genomics
Background:
- Trimming is a critical step in next-generation sequencing (NGS) data processing.
- Existing tools like Trimmomatic and Ktrim have limitations in computational efficiency on modern hardware.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop a highly optimized and versatile sequencing data trimming tool.
- To improve upon the performance of existing trimming software using advanced computational techniques.
Main Methods:
- RabbitTrim employs efficient I/O, parallel (de)compression, block-based memory pools, bitwise operations, and vectorization.
- The tool was benchmarked against Trimmomatic and Ktrim on various FASTQ file types (plain and gzip-compressed).
Main Results:
- RabbitTrim achieved 1.8x-6.0x speedup over Trimmomatic on plain FASTQ and 3.7x-14.0x on gzip-compressed FASTQ.
- Compared to Ktrim, RabbitTrim showed 1.5x-2.5x speedup on plain FASTQ and 2.7x-5.6x on gzip-compressed FASTQ.
- RabbitTrim processed 101 GB of compressed data in 5 minutes, versus Trimmomatic's 21+ minutes.
Conclusions:
- RabbitTrim offers substantial performance improvements for sequencing data trimming.
- The tool effectively utilizes modern multi-core architectures for faster bioinformatics workflows.
- RabbitTrim provides a more efficient alternative for essential sequencing data preprocessing.
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