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Compression shell command based on the LZW compression algorithm

compress is a shell command for compressing data based on the LZW algorithm. uncompress is a companion shell command that restores files to their original state from a file created with compress. Wikipedia →

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  4. Read the landmark paper: DnaSP v5: a software for comprehensive analysis of DNA polymorphism dataCited 13,997 times
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