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Lossy genomic data compression, especially of the base quality values of sequencing data, is emerging as an efficient way to handle this challenge due to its superior compression performance compared to lossless compression methods. Many lossy compression algorithms have been developed for and evaluated using DNA sequencing data. However, whether these algorithms can be used on RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data remains unclear.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n<jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>In this study, we evaluated the impacts of lossy quality value compression on common RNA-seq data analysis pipelines including expression quantification, transcriptome assembly, and short variants detection using RNA-seq data from different species and sequencing platforms. Our study shows that lossy quality value compression could effectively improve RNA-seq data compression. In some cases, lossy algorithms achieved up to 1.2-3 times further reduction on the overall RNA-seq data size compared to existing lossless algorithms. However, lossy quality value compression could affect the results of some RNA-seq data processing pipelines, and hence its impacts to RNA-seq studies cannot be ignored in some cases. Pipelines using HISAT2 for alignment were most significantly affected by lossy quality value compression, while the effects of lossy compression on pipelines that do not depend on quality values, e.g., STAR-based expression quantification and transcriptome assembly pipelines, were not observed. Moreover, regardless of using either STAR or HISAT2 as the aligner, variant detection results were affected by lossy quality value compression, albeit to a lesser extent when STAR-based pipeline was used. Our results also show that the impacts of lossy quality value compression depend on the compression algorithms being used and the compression levels if the algorithm supports setting of multiple compression levels.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n<jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>Lossy quality value compression can be incorporated into existing RNA-seq analysis pipelines to alleviate the data storage and transmission burdens. 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