openvax / pyensembl

Python interface to access reference genome features (such as genes, transcripts, and exons) from Ensembl
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try to use less disk space #97

Closed timodonnell closed 9 years ago

timodonnell commented 9 years ago

Can we work with compressed gtf and fa files?

iskandr commented 9 years ago

The default for decompress_on_download is now False. The indexed data will probably still take up a lot of space though.