UPPMAX/irods — Issue #10: Apply compression to common data formats
Author: brainstorm
Created: 2011-12-15 12:56:15+00:00
State: open

.sam files should not be present for more than X months on the filesystem. Automatic conversion to .bam can be performed.

Likewise, unused files (for a reasonable amount of time), should be compressed to .gz, which many bioinformatic tools support natively.