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ArticleBioinformatics advances2026

QPL-enabled HTSlib library: accelerating sequence file compression using Intel IAA.

Benjamin Laflen, Zheyu Li, Maxwell Urbina, Tajana Rosing, Niema Moshiri

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Benjamin LaflenDepartment of Computer Science & Engineering, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1367-9390
Zheyu LiDepartment of Computer Science & Engineering, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4117-807X
Maxwell UrbinaDepartment of Computer Science & Engineering, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States.
Tajana RosingDepartment of Computer Science & Engineering, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6954-997X
Niema MoshiriDepartment of Computer Science & Engineering, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2209-8128

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Abstract

Summary: Sequence analysis workflows require the accessibility of large datasets, which require state-of-the-art compression tools. These compression tools, such as Samtools, often rely on HTSlib as a GZip implementation, but are still limited by throughput on time-intensive compression. QPL-HTSLib offers order of magnitude speedups for the compression and decompression of the SAM and BAM file formats commonly used in genomics workflows at the cost of a slightly larger compressed file, and is a drop-in replacement for HTSlib on Intel systems. Availability and implementation: QPL-HTSLib is freely available on Github as an open-source software project.

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PMCPMC13549381

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