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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon VerisimilitudeX

Store .fa DNA files in Smaller File Size

Open VerisimilitudeX opened this issue 3 years ago • 6 comments

Use a more efficient file format as the DNA FASTA files right now are very big and take a lot of time to download while cloning the DNAnalyzer repository.

VerisimilitudeX avatar Oct 18 '22 02:10 VerisimilitudeX

I would like to look into this, please assign to me :)

MartinGallauner avatar Oct 21 '22 19:10 MartinGallauner

Sure!

VerisimilitudeX avatar Oct 21 '22 19:10 VerisimilitudeX

For some more information, I use 7-Zip as my compression & zip file manager because it's open source, it can compress a 100MB. FA file into 26.5MB using the default LZMA compression method set to "Ultra Compression". Text files can usually be very easily compressed, especially .fasta files.

LimesKey avatar Oct 22 '22 13:10 LimesKey

Thanks for this @LimesKey. @MartinGallauner could you please compress all of the DNA files that we have under ./assets/dna/* using 7-Zip or a similar tool? Thanks for working on this!

VerisimilitudeX avatar Oct 22 '22 18:10 VerisimilitudeX

Understood. Will do that no later that tomorrow!

MartinGallauner avatar Oct 22 '22 19:10 MartinGallauner

No worries, thank you so much for contributing!

VerisimilitudeX avatar Oct 22 '22 19:10 VerisimilitudeX