Comment by Ultimatt
5 years ago
now if only tabix and most hokey bioinformatics formats would die and just be replaced with a formal schema spec in SQLite...
5 years ago
now if only tabix and most hokey bioinformatics formats would die and just be replaced with a formal schema spec in SQLite...
Honestly I think Tabix's bgzipped TSV is one of the less hokey bioinformatics formats, at least compared to the various custom binary formats floating around.
For web browser based genome browsers I suspect this (very cool!) sqlite hack would require many more http requests.