NAF: FASTA Compression Benchmark

Helicobacter genomes

• Test dataset: 1,464 genomes of Helicobacter species (list), stored in a single file.
  • Originally from GenBank, obtained via GenomeSync (on January 14, 2019)
  • Size: 2,497,823,276 bytes
  • Number of sequences: 98,154
• Method: Benchmark setup
• Compared compressors: FASTA compressors

Best setting of each compressor

Ratio vs Speed

Each line connects consecutive settings of one compressor.

Ratio vs Speed (log scale)

Size vs Time (log scale)