Compression of FASTQ and SAM Format Sequencing Data

James K. Bonfield; Matthew V. Mahoney

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059190

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Compression of FASTQ and SAM Format Sequencing Data

James K. Bonfield ,

* E-mail: jkb@sanger.ac.uk

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Matthew V. Mahoney

Affiliation Dell Inc., Round Rock, Texas, United States of America
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Compression of FASTQ and SAM Format Sequencing Data

James K. Bonfield,
Matthew V. Mahoney

Published: March 22, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059190

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Correctly formatted PDF

Posted by jbonfield on 04 Oct 2013 at 08:36 GMT

6 months after sending my initial corrections to the errors caused in the PDF to Word (!) translation step, the problems still exist.

Therefore here is a link to the original submission PDF with correctly formatted text.

ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pu...

No competing interests declared.

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