is replacing read names with integers still recommended?

lbcb-sci / racon

Ultrafast consensus module for raw de novo genome assembly of long uncorrected reads

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Closed evanrrees closed 4 years ago

evanrrees commented 4 years ago

In the old Racon repository, there's a recommendation that read names be replaced with integers to speed up PAF parsing. Is this still recommended?

Thanks for a great tool!

rvaser commented 4 years ago

If you have a large read set with long names, then yes.

Best regards, Robert

evanrrees commented 4 years ago

Great, thanks Robert! -Evan