DNA with quality

Warning

Work-in-progress, mostly untested. Check the source code.

Encoding with fewer bits

As outlined in section XXX, DNA sequences can be encoded using a limited number of bits.

DNA-with-quality can equally be encoded with fewer bits than it would take to represent the data with strings. The reader will note that the the quality string present in formats such as FASTAQ is already an encoding of the information.

8-bits can be used to encode both DNA and quality, reducing the space used to store both a DNA base and its quality counterpart by 2.