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Is this expected to be faster than fasterq-dump as well?

Open achillesrasquinha opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

achillesrasquinha avatar Dec 15 '21 14:12 achillesrasquinha

not really, the idea behind fasterq-dump is similar to parallel-fastq-dump, but it has the advantage of being implemented natively by the sratools authors, so if anything I expect fasterq-dump to be faster.

however fasterq-dump does not support all options from fastq-dump, so is some cases its still better to use parallel-fastq-dump.

see also, this benchmark and discussion https://github.com/rvalieris/parallel-fastq-dump/issues/41, made by @Midnighter

rvalieris avatar Dec 15 '21 16:12 rvalieris

Thanks!

achillesrasquinha avatar Dec 16 '21 18:12 achillesrasquinha