Table 1. Compression tools adopted and their parameters.

Algorithm	Parameters
SPRING	-c -i -t 16 / -c -l -i -t 16
LFQC	-
DSRC2	c -m2
Fqzcomp	SOLEXA: -n2 -s7þ -b -q3
	LS454: -n1 -s7þ -b -q2
	SOLiD: -S -n2 -s5þ -q1
SeqSqueeze1	-h 4 1/5 -hs 5 -b 1:3 -b 1:7 -b 1:12 1/10 -bg 0.9 -s 1:2 1/5 -s 1:3 1/10 -ss 10 -sg 0.95
Quip	-
Gzip	-9
Bzip2	-9