Content Comparison

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1. Pool1_S1_L001_R1_001.fastq (20 GBGBytes) – 416,256,593 reads (99 GBytes uncompressed)

2. Pool2_S2_L002_R1_001.fastq.gz (20 GBGBytes) – 405,613,054 reads (97 GBytes uncompressed)

3. Pool3_S1_L001_R1_001.fastq.gz (23 GBGBytes) – 482,619,189 reads (115 GBytes uncompressed)

4. Pool4_S2_L002_R1_001.fastq.gz (19 GBGBytes) – 427,134,565 reads (102 GBytes uncompressed)

I used unpigz.sh to decompress the fastq files, because our parser does not read from gzipped files.

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