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Re: [modeller_usage] Question about compressing Uniprot90

On 07/11/2012 02:46 PM, Dimitrije Jevremovic wrote:

I am trying to compress the Uniprot90 FASTA file database into a
binary file using convert() function as provided in examples for the
MODELLER. However, my compressed file ends up being even larger than
the uncompressed original one.
Binary files are faster to access than text files. They are not necessarily smaller (for one thing, the indexes used for random-access lookup of sequences take up space). 

	Ben Webb, Modeller Caretaker
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