Luiz Irber

My exit seminar: Decentralizing Indices for Genomic Data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmMlZs007Nk

Note that they were both borrowed from #2230, so technically they will go in at some point. But can also make a smaller PR

Maybe checking the [question](https://github.com/dib-lab/sourmash/issues?q=label%3Aquestion+) label too. (and also start labeling more issues with `question` =P)

> I feel like we've benefited a lot from using a really boring standard format like JSON which has lots of tools & language support Yup, I agree. > so...

> what about AVRO? https://avro.apache.org/ This is probably very easy to test, considering that https://github.com/flavray/avro-rs supports `serde`, and so it is a drop-in replacement in the current codebase. I was...

I started playing with the easy ones (the formats supported by serde) in https://github.com/luizirber/2021-02-11-sourmash-binary-format, will report when I have more results.

> which has both [rust](https://github.com/RoaringBitmap/roaring-rs) and [python](https://github.com/Ezibenroc/PyRoaringBitMap/) bindings. I'll do a quick check on the rust one for mastiff, I really liked the API! At the moment #2230 is using...

Seems like roaring is smaller and faster than rkyv on a first test, will try more extensive benchmarks soon. branch: https://github.com/sourmash-bio/sourmash/compare/lirber/mastiff...lirber/mastiff_roaring

> Seems like roaring is smaller and faster than rkyv on a first test, will try more extensive benchmarks soon. > > branch: [lirber/mastiff...lirber/mastiff_roaring](https://github.com/sourmash-bio/sourmash/compare/lirber/mastiff...lirber/mastiff_roaring) Caveat on `roaring`: it only stores...

> @luizirber I'm happy to take on the rust dependabot reviews if you have a short list of criteria or can point me at a guide as to what to...