AlexsLemonade / AlexsLemonade/refinebio
Switch index-refinery from storing .tar.gz files to .tar.xz files
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 135
- Forks
- 21
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Description
The `Homo_sapiens_short.tar.gz` file is 2.5 GB, whereas the same file compressed using `xz` is less than one GB. As these files don't actually feed into `salmon` in the gzipped format there's not much reason to use `gz` instead of `xz` other than the fact that `gz` may be easier for other users of the Index Refinery to use. However @jaclyn-taroni doesn't think that it would be a significant factor so `xz` seems superior.
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Locate the Index Refinery code that creates and stores the Homo_sapiens_short archive, then check how downstream consumers open it; the work is done when the archive is stored as .tar.xz without breaking supported consumers.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- data-engineering
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100