> Well it is for genetics. No wonder that I initially didn't get what it was > about. I am not a genetic engineer.
Genetics is one of the applications, but these algorithms are generally applicable in text analysis. In the C++ world, [SDSL](https://github.com/simongog/sdsl-lite) is a comparable library. One of the reasons bioinformaticians are interested in this is that genomic data is large: > 3GB for an H. Sapiens genome and you typically want coverage 20-50X so it starts to get really tough to keep all of that in RAM which is where you'd like it. FYI, the sort of people who'd use this in genome assembly (which Andrea said he's interested in in the Cello docs) are **bioinformaticians**, not **genetic engineers**.
