QualComp

:: DESCRIPTION

QualComp is a lossy compression algorithm for the quality scores presented in a FASTQ file.

::DEVELOPER

Tsachy (Itschak) Weissman

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

• Windows / Linux
• C COmpiler

:: DOWNLOAD

QualComp

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

BMC Bioinformatics. 2013 Jun 8;14:187. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-187.
QualComp: a new lossy compressor for quality scores based on rate distortion theory.
Ochoa I1, Asnani H, Bharadia D, Chowdhury M, Weissman T, Yona G.