Description

Fast, efficient, lossless compression of FASTQ files.

Input

Name (Type)
Description
Pattern

meta (map)

Groovy Map containing sample information
e.g. [ id:‘test’, single_end

]

fastq1 (file)

FASTQ file to compress.

*.{fq.gz,fastq.gz}

fastq2 (file)

Parired FASTQ file fon non single-end experiments.

*.{fq.gz,fastq.gz}

Output

Name (Type)
Description
Pattern

meta (map)

Groovy Map containing sample information
e.g. [ id:‘test’, single_end

]

versions (file)

File containing software versions

versions.yml

spring (file)

One sequence file in spring compressed format.

*.{spring}

Tools

spring
Free for non-commercial use

SPRING is a compression tool for Fastq files (containing up to 4.29 Billion reads)