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Space-efficient pseudoalignment with a colored de Bruijn graph
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Store input names in the index #44

Open tmaklin opened 2 months ago

tmaklin commented 2 months ago

Can we add support for storing and printing the input file names (and their colors) to the next version that touches the index format? Fulgor for example has a print-filenames subcommand that we could then implement.

This would be helpful in checking the contents of previously built indexes and in mapping the pseudoalignment results back to the names of the sequences, which currently relies on having the input list file available.

jnalanko commented 2 months ago

Yes, definitely. Would it make sense to just write the names to a new file? I'm a bit hesitant about adding it into the .tdbg or .tcolors files. A new file would also not break backward compatibility.

tmaklin commented 2 months ago

That should be fine since the syntax for themisto commands uses --index-prefix anyway to identify the index files.