Genozip is a lossless compressor for FASTQ, BAM/CRAM, VCF and many other genomic files - see https://genozip.com
Genozip is also available on Conda and binary downloads, see installation options.
Building from source: make -j (required for building: gcc 8.5 or above ; nasm).
New: Genozip 15 - with Deep™ - losslessly co-compressing BAM and FASTQ files:
Genozip Genozip is a commercial product, but it is free for students. See eligibility and other licensing options or contact sales@genozip.com
IMPORTANT: Genozip is a commercial product, NOT AN OPEN SOURCE product - we provide our source code to assure users that they will always have access to the code needed to decompress their files. HOWEVER, reverse engineering, code modifications, derivative works or inclusion of the code or parts thereof into other software packages is strictly forbidden by the license.
Attributions for 3rd party source components: attributions.
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