SCALCE
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| Created by | Hach F, Numanagic I, Alkan C, Sahinalp SC |
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| Biological application domain(s) | Genomics |
| Principal bioinformatics method(s) | Data compression |
| Technology | Illumina |
| Created at | Simon Fraser University
University of Washington |
| Maintained? | Yes |
| Input format(s) | FASTQ |
| Output format(s) | scalcer, scalceq, scalcen |
| Software features | FASTQ file compression |
| Programming language(s) | C |
| Software libraries | zlib, bzlib |
| Operating system(s) | Linux 64, Linux |
Summary: SCALCE [skeɪlz] is fast FASTQ compression utility that utilizes locally consistent parsing for better compression rate. It achieves around 2X more compression than gzip alone.
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Description
SCALCE will compress provided FASTQ files and generate three output files with extension .scalcen (for read names), .scalcer (reads) and .scalceq (qualities).
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