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FastDup: a scalable duplicate marking tool using speculation-and-test mechanism.

Zhonghai Zhang^1,2, Yewen Li³, Ke Meng¹

¹Institute of Computing Technology, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China.

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)

|December 1, 2025

Summary

FastDup significantly accelerates duplicate marking in gene sequence analysis, offering a high-performance alternative to Picard MarkDuplicates. This tool provides identical results with up to 20x greater speed, improving efficiency for large datasets.

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Area of Science:

Genomics
Bioinformatics
Computational Biology

Background:

Duplicate marking is essential for preprocessing gene sequences, identifying redundant reads from PCR amplification and sequencing artifacts.
Picard MarkDuplicates is the standard tool but is computationally intensive and slow on large datasets due to single-threaded processing and global sorting.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce FastDup, a novel, high-performance, and scalable solution for efficient duplicate marking in gene sequence analysis.
To address the computational and resource limitations of existing tools like Picard MarkDuplicates.

Main Methods:

FastDup employs a speculation-and-test mechanism for efficient duplicate identification.
The software is implemented in C++ for high performance.

Main Results:

FastDup achieves up to a 20x throughput speedup when using 32 threads.
The tool guarantees 100% identical output compared to Picard MarkDuplicates.
Demonstrates significant improvements in computational efficiency and scalability for large-scale genomic datasets.

Conclusions:

FastDup offers a superior alternative for duplicate marking in gene sequence analysis, enhancing speed and scalability.
The tool provides a computationally efficient and accurate solution for handling large genomic datasets, overcoming the limitations of traditional methods.