[bip] Indexing big sequence databases

[James Casbon]

On 29 March 2010 16:45, Paul Davis <paul.joseph.davis at gmail.com> wrote:
> You might also be interested in testing Tokyo Cabinet if your queries
> are limited to "fetch by name" and "iterate over everything." Its
> treated me pretty well but I've never gone out of my way to benchmark
> it against other solutions as it was always fast enough.

I never got round to looking into it, but tokyo cabinet actually uses
BWT to index, right?
(See http://linux.die.net/man/3/tokyocabinet)

This means it should be the perfect data store to create a short read
aligner, right?

James