ABRIDGE_v1.0.0

abridge is a state-of-the-art compressor for SAM alignment files. Please check https://github.com/sagnikbanerjee15/Abridge for more details. abridge is released under MIT license. abridge can be used to compress SAM alignment files. Users have the option to choose the type of compression to favour either speed or compression ratio.

Highlights

1. abridge released as a docker images and can be executed in either a docker environment or a singularity environment
2. abridge offers both lossless and lossy compression. Typically, lossless compression triggers the storage of quality values of each read. Lossless compression can be achieved by requesting to store only specific bases or eliminate quality scores altogether.
3. Read alignments from random locations can be accessed using abridge