Currently datasets can be stored as numpy arrays in memory or as hdf5 file on disk.
As Genomics is full of sparse datasets, it makes sense to introduce a storage option for sparse data.
To this end, a SparseGenomicArray needs to be implemented that utilizes scipy.sparse matrices.
wkopp
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6 years ago
Currently datasets can be stored as numpy arrays in memory or as hdf5 file on disk. As Genomics is full of sparse datasets, it makes sense to introduce a storage option for sparse data.
To this end, a SparseGenomicArray needs to be implemented that utilizes scipy.sparse matrices.