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The availability of tools that can reliably and efficiently generate and store sequencing read summary statistics has become critical.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>As part of the effort by the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) to generate high-quality reference genomes at scale, we sought to address the community\u2019s need for efficient sequence data evaluation by developing rdeval, a standalone tool to quickly compute and interactively display sequencing read metrics. Rdeval can either run on the fly or store key sequence data metrics in tiny read \u2018snapshot\u2019 files. Statistics can then be efficiently recalled from snapshots for additional processing. Rdeval can convert fa*[.gz] files to and from other popular formats including BAM and CRAM for better compression. 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