tgen / tempe

A container focused and streamlined iteration of the Phoenix pipeline
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zcat vs pigz vs gzip #68

Open PedalheadPHX opened 9 months ago

PedalheadPHX commented 9 months ago

https://github.com/tgen/tempe/blob/a58d1b95020dc7fa6b3d02f7c73962c928f75cf7/modules/dna_alignment/split_fastq.j2#L40

would a straight decompression be faster then zcat using gzip/gunzip or pigz? In most cases this is a short task but with large fastq it can take more time than I think we appreciate and ends up being a large part of the total start-stop run time