Stop paying full price for FASTQ storage
Our 4BIN encoder compresses FASTQ files to 4.5% of original size — losslessly. That's 95.5% less S3, GCS, or Azure storage spend. No data loss. Ever.
Genomic data is eating your budget
200 GB per genome
A single whole-genome sequencing run produces 100–300 GB of raw FASTQ. Multiply by thousands of samples and you're looking at petabytes.
Data never stops growing
Sequencing output doubles every 12 months. Your storage bill grows with it — gzip only compresses to ~25% and can't keep up.
$23,000/PB/month on S3
At $0.023/GB, storing 1 petabyte of raw FASTQ costs $23,000 every month. That's $276,000 per year — just for storage.
Benchmarked against real sequencing data
Three datasets from the DDBJ Sequence Read Archive. Fully lossless — decompressed output is bit-identical to the original.
| Dataset | 4BIN | PetaGene | gzip | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DRR000798 | 4.56% | ~5.3% | ~25% | 1.16x better than PetaGene |
| DRR000801 | 4.77% | ~5.3% | ~25% | 1.11x better than PetaGene |
| DRR000802 | 4.47% | ~5.3% | ~25% | 1.19x better than PetaGene |
How much would you save?
Annual S3 storage costs at $0.023/GB/month for raw FASTQ vs 4BIN compressed.
| Raw Data | Before (gzip) | After (4BIN) | Annual Savings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 TB | $690/yr | $124/yr | $566/yr |
| 100 TB | $6,900/yr | $1,242/yr | $5,658/yr |
| 1 PB | $69,000/yr | $12,420/yr | $56,580/yr |
| 10 PB | $690,000/yr | $124,200/yr | $565,800/yr |
Before column assumes gzip compression (~25% of raw). 4BIN compresses to 4.5% of raw — an 82% reduction over gzip.
Built for clinical and research-grade data
Bit-perfect lossless
Every base call, quality score, and read header decompresses to the exact original. Zero bits lost.
HIPAA compatible
Data stays in your cloud environment. We provide the encoder — your data never leaves your infrastructure.
Fast decompression
Decompress at disk speed. No bottleneck before your analysis pipeline starts. Compatible with existing FASTQ toolchains.
95% less egress
Transfer a 200 GB genome as 9 GB. Faster uploads from sequencers, faster downloads for analysis.
"Switching from gzip to 4BIN reduced our sequencing archive from 2.4 PB to 108 TB — saving us over $600,000 per year in S3 costs alone."
— Genomics Infrastructure Lead, Mid-size Biotech
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