Jimmy O'Donnell

This is a better way to handle config settings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file

Cutadapt can now operate in parallel: https://cutadapt.readthedocs.io/en/stable/changes.html#v1-15-2017-11-23 Before implementing, check the important caveats ('Multi-core support is only available on Python 3, and not yet with some command-line arguments').