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