References

This section is the portal's reference shelf. Use it when your question is not "how do I run fq-compressor?" but "which papers, repositories, and project-posture decisions explain why the public story looks like this?"

Citation apparatus

The public story is backed by papers, repositories, and local evidence anchors.

Core literature

[R1]
SPRING paper
Closest paper-level frame for assembly-based compression and reversible reordering.
[R2]
fqzcomp repository
Quality-value coding reference for stream-specific trade-offs.
[R3]
NanoSpring paper
Long-read comparator that clarifies what fq-compressor is not tuned for first.

Comparator repositories

[C1]
Spring
Upstream reference for ordering plus consensus-and-delta reasoning.
[C2]
HARC
FASTQ-specialized comparator for architecture and scope choices.
[C3]
fqzcomp
Compact quality model used as a pressure test for stream design.

Repository evidence

[E1]
benchmark/results/
Tracked machine-readable and narrative benchmark artifacts.
[E2]
docs/archive/
Historical research and governance material kept for reference only.
[E3]
vendor/spring-core/
License-bounded extracted reference code used for study.

How to use this shelf

Open Bibliography when you want the numbered literature and repository list used by the public docs.
Open Comparative study when you want to understand which upstream ideas fq-compressor keeps, adapts, or rejects.
Open Evolution notes when you need the current closeout-mode posture and documentation boundary.

Keep these repository anchors open

Why the reference shelf matters

fq-compressor is stronger when it acknowledges lineage. SPRING [R1], fqzcomp [R2], HARC [C2], and NanoSpring [R3] are not decoration. They define the conversation the project is entering, and they make it easier to explain where fq-compressor is deliberately narrower or different. Historical OpenSpec material may still appear in docs/archive/, where it remains archival context only.

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