Would make an interesting comp sci project as you would probably need a
way to split the DB over multiple files when you hit the limits of your
OS.
- Mark
Thomas Down <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
01/24/2005 05:22 PM
To: Mark Schreiber/GP/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: biojava-list List <biojava-l@biojava.org>
Subject: Re: [Biojava-l] reading nib sequence files
On 24 Jan 2005, at 09:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> BioJava uses (or at least can use) the PackedSymbolList for large
> sequences. It uses an array of longs to represent the packed bits.
>
> There may be some advantage to using a ByteBuffer, hard to know.
The main reason I was thinking for using MappedByteBuffer is that if
you're accessing a large amount of sequence it won't necessarily all
get loaded into memory at once. This could, for example, make random
access to a multi-gigabase sequence database bearable on a basic
desktop computer. Just a thought, not sure how much demand there is
for this.
Thomas.
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