Commercial licenses
A commercial license is required in any of these apply:
1. Your organization is not an academic research institution. By "academic research institution" we mean an organization whose primary mission is to contribute to the scientific record by publishing papers in journals.
2. The data being compressed was acquired in the context of a service you provide - examples of services include: a sequencing, bioinformatics, diagnostic, clinical, research-on-contract, IT, product development, inspection, aggregating datasets for consumption by external users.
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Genozip Standard
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Our most popular product
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Compression of FASTQ, BAM, VCF and many other genomic formats.
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Genozip is an on-premise
command-line tool that does not require Internet connectivity.
Unlimited use: all users, all data, all computers within the organization
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Decompression does not require a license: you can always access and share your data.
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Optimized methods (under the hood) for data generated by Illumina, MGI, PacBio, Nanopore, Ultima, IonTorrent, Element, Singular and Onso.
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Optimized methods for BAM files generated by 35 common aligners and VCF files generated by 23 common variant callers and tools.
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Optimized methods for study types including WGS/WES, bisulfite conversion, RNAseq, single-cell and others.
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--tar for creating a compressed tar file preserving directory structure.
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genocat for seamless integration in pipelines.
Cost: US$3,500 per year
Genozip Enterprise
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Our best compression methods
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Everything in Standard plus:
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--pair for significantly better compression of paired-end FASTQ files
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--deep for co-compression of related BAM and FASTQ files, saving an additional 30-50%.
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Integrating your specific data formats: You may send us examples of your data (your specific FASTQ, BAM and VCF file formats) for us optimize their compression and/or add them to our internal automated quality assurance pipeline to reduce technical risk.
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Cost: US$5,000 per year
Genozip Premium
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Supporting your business
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Everything in Enterprise plus:
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--sendto for receiving compressed files from your clients: Your clients can compress files using your license, at no cost to them. The files are only decompressible by you.
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--password for encrypting data while compressing it, using standard AES-256 encryption.
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--user-message for including a message that will be displayed when a user (possibly your client) decompresses the file. Useful for showing the user support information, technical details of the file or a marketing message.
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First priority technical support.
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Our technical support to you, extends to your clients.
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At your request, we can deposit our source code with a 3rd-party source code escrow service that will be released to you if needed.
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Cost: $20,000/year or $1,750/month
Academic licenses
Eligibility criteria (for all types of Academic licenses): Both these conditions must be true:
1. Institution: Your organization must be an academic research institution. By "academic research institution" we mean an organization whose primary mission is to contribute to the scientific record by publishing papers in journals. This excludes hospitals of any type.
2. No Commercial Data: The data was not acquired in the context of any kind of service for which you or your institution got paid (including via a grant or government funding). Examples of services include: sequencing, bioinformatics, diagnostic, clinical, research-on-contract, IT, product development, inspection, dataset aggregations for (free or paid) consumption by external users.
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Genozip Academic
(free)
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Our contribution to science
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Identical to Genozip Enterprise, free.
No technical support.
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Limited to compressing 10,000 files (lifetime per institution).
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Telemetry enabled: Genozip will send a tiny log record to our server after every compression, containing aggregate statistics regarding the performance of our compression methods and meta data. We use this information to improve Genozip.
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Cost: free
Genozip Academic
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Heavily discounted for academia
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Identical to Genozip Enterprise, at a reduced, academic-friendly price.​
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Limited for use by one lab / project / center at the institution.
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Unlimited data volume.
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Technical support available.
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Telemetry disabled (unless you enable it), and an Internet connection is not required.
Cost: US$1,750 per year
Questions about our licenses? drop us a message on sales@genozip.com.