Crazy idea: JavaScript implementation of HLL and diginorm

[standage]

I scraped this lone entry from a crazy-ideas file in the documentation.

A JavaScript preprocessor to do things like count k-mers (HLL), and do diginorm on data as uploaded to server. Inspired by a paper that Titus reviewed for PLoS One; not yet published.

Not sure if this still captures anyone's imagination, but I figure this would be better to track on the issue tracker than the documentation.

[ctb]

YES PLEASE

(it's an all caps kind of day)

[camillescott]

Perhaps a bionode module?

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[betatim]

The idea would be to run the HLL and diginorm "client side" when someone clicks "upload this file" on a webservice? Thereby reducing the amount of data sent? And all of it nicely in JS so that it happens automagically in the browser instead of asking the user to run some weird python script?

A JS implementation of HLL by optimizely and this one which is the top hit on google: https://github.com/aggregateknowledge/js-hll

[ctb]

with WebAssembly we could even just port khmer into the browser! What fun!