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0 pointsshellfishgene6mo ago0 comments

You're joking, but a few bioinformatics tools use the Burrows-Wheeler transform to save memory, which is a bit like sorting the bases.

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jefftk6mo ago

You can also improve compression by reordering the sequences within the FASTA file, as long as you're using it as a dictionary and not a list of title-sequence pairs.

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0 pointsshellfishgene6mo ago0 comments

You're joking, but a few bioinformatics tools use the Burrows-Wheeler transform to save memory, which is a bit like sorting the bases.

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jefftk6mo ago

You can also improve compression by reordering the sequences within the FASTA file, as long as you're using it as a dictionary and not a list of title-sequence pairs.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse