The DSRC 0.x release is accompanied by a research paper by Sebastian Deorowicz and Szymon Grabowski in which we describe the details of the algorithm. The paper was published as:

S. Deorowicz and Sz. Grabowski, Compression of DNA sequence reads in FASTQ format, Bioinformatics (2011) 27(6):860–862.

From the end of 2011, the software (DSRC 1.x releases) is being improved and extended by Sebastian Deorowicz and Łukasz Roguski.

The release 2.0 is mostly written by Łukasz Roguski. The paper describing this release was submitted to a journal for review.