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Re: new format .gz ?

From glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups comp.compression
Subject Re: new format .gz ?
Date 2012-12-25 08:24 +0000
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sterten@aol.com wrote:
> 1000 genomes is using a specialized version of gzip, 
> so presumably this is just a bug in their version
> and not related to a new general 64-bit format.
 
> It was surprising to me that 7zip gave much better (~2fold)
> compression rates with their "vcf-format" files, (=lists of 
> mutations in several human genomes)than gzip.
 
> Could that be because the lines - and thus the potentioal
> locations of matching strings - in these files are so long ?

It has been some time since I was working on this...

I presume you are talking about BAM files.

While they are actual gzip files, they also have some index information
such that you can start decompressing from other than at the beginning.

-- glen

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new format .gz ? sterten@aol.com - 2012-12-24 04:37 -0800
  Re: new format .gz ? sterten@aol.com - 2012-12-24 05:17 -0800
    Re: new format .gz ? sterten@aol.com - 2012-12-24 22:34 -0800
      Re: new format .gz ? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-12-25 08:24 +0000
  Re: new format .gz ? sterten@aol.com - 2012-12-25 02:40 -0800
    Re: new format .gz ? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-12-25 13:52 +0000
  Re: new format .gz ? sterten@aol.com - 2013-01-26 07:24 -0800

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