Nanopore quality score resolution can be reduced with little effect on downstream analysis
Martin Rivara-Espasandín, Lucía Balestrazzi, Guillermo Dufort y Álvarez, Idoia Ochoa, G. Seroussi, Pablo Smircich, José Roberto Sotelo-Silveira, Álvaro Martín
The paper shows that quantizing nanopore quality scores has minimal impact on downstream analysis and suggests using lossy compression for storage savings.
Bioinformatics Advances · Jan 1, 2022Peer-reviewedBioinformatics