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That is a trade off in that you can no longer randomly access a single file without decompressing the entire stream. That is often desired for file archives. F
by conradev 5y ago
That is a trade off in that you can no longer randomly access a single file without decompressing the entire stream.
That is often desired for file archives. For use cases like genomics, though, reads from random offsets are common, hence the bgzf format used by BAM files which is a sequence of gzip chunks and an index. Lower compression ratio, but faster seeking.