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Add optional BINSEQ/CBQ input support for faster sequencing I/O #2

@nick-youngblut

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@nick-youngblut

At the Arc Institute, we use binseq for increased performance versus fastq files. It would be great to see binseq supported in STAR-suite as an optional input backend. Some features of binseq:

  • Binary two-bit sequence encoding
  • Support for single-end and paired-end reads
  • Optional storage of qualities and headers
  • A blocked/columnar layout
  • Per-column ZSTD compression
  • Potential lazy/partial decoding of fields that a workflow actually needs

CBQ input could provide up to 2.0x faster input ingestion vs native gzip FASTQ.

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