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by chrisamiller 1259 days ago
In most cases* the raw data can be recreated from the aligned BAM/CRAM file, so it's often sensible to toss the raw FASTQs after alignment. But yeah, I go back to 10+ year old genome sequences more than some might expect.

*In the absence of read trimming or discarding unmapped reads