11 Jul
2012
11 Jul
'12
3:31 p.m.
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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