mim: A lightweight auxiliary index to enable fast, parallel, gzipped FASTQ parsing
Rob Patro, Siddhant Bharti, Prajwal Singhania, Rakrish Dhakal, Thomas J. Dahlstrom, Ragnar Groot Koerkamp
The paper introduces mim, a lightweight index to accelerate parallel parsing of gzipped FASTQ files with minimal overhead and storage.
bioRxiv · Nov 24, 2025 · PreprintBioinformatics