• 100% lossless compression
• Extreme compression, making files up to 90% smaller
• Transparent, just-in-time decompression 
• Smaller files, same tools, faster analysis

The PetaSuite binary is used to compress Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) files.  It consists of a command-line tool and a user-mode library. The command-line tool performs compression and decompression while the user-mode library allows other tools and pipelines to transparently access the NGS data in their original file formats. The compression binary is called petasuite and the user-mode library is called petalink.so. PetaLink.so performs transparent decompression of PetaGene compressed files, presenting original & uncompressed data to tools and pipelines, which means that there is no need to modify these. 

PetaLink Cloud

PetaLink Cloud is a powerful library built on top of the decompression technology of PetaLink.so and allows users to stream data directly from Azure blob storage to their compute infrastructure. Features of PetaLink Cloud:

• directly stream data to and from Azure blob storage
• enable all bioinformatics tools to directly access data from blob storage
• user-mode library, easy to install 
• extremely fast data transfer and streaming
• works with all file types
• deploy inside containers