Whitepaper

The whitepaper section gathers the public-facing technical narrative for fq-compressor. It explains the main compression ideas at a system level without turning the site into an implementation notebook.

Whitepaper topics

• ABC pipeline explains how global analysis, block formation, and stream writing turn short-read redundancy into a seekable archive.
• SCM quality modeling explains why quality values are handled as their own statistical signal with adaptive arithmetic coding.
• Read reordering explains how minimizer-guided ordering improves locality while remaining fully reversible.
• Consensus and delta representation explains how local contigs store one consensus plus sparse per-read edits.

Reading outcome

After these pages, a reader should understand the four main technical claims behind fq-compressor: why short-read ordering exists, how sequences are reduced to consensus-plus-delta form, how quality values are modeled separately, and where the current implementation intentionally stops short of broader claims.

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• Architecture for how the system is organized
• Benchmarks for measured support behind public claims