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In general, we should use zst over zip/gzip/xz due to faster (de)compression and also often higher compression ratios (for longer sequences).

While the default compression with .tar.zst is slightly less dense than .zip, this is tunable and with e.g. -10 we get smaller outputs

My suggestion is to use .tar.zst for a uniform API across nextstrain ingest outputs - in this case here it doesn't matter as it's just 100kB anyways.

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In general, we should use zst over zip/gzip/xz due to faster (de)compression and also often higher compression ratios (for longer sequences).

While the default compression with .tar.zst is slightly less dense than .zip, this is tunable and with e.g. -10 we get smaller outputs

My suggestion is to use .tar.zst for a uniform API across nextstrain ingest outputs - in this case here it doesn't matter as it's just 100kB anyways.
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