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		im3w1l 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Removing newlines in FASTA file increases ZSTD com... As someone with an idle interest in data compression, ss it possible to download the original dataset somewhere to play around with? Or rather a like 20gb subset of it.

fwip 4 months ago [–]

The article links to the dataset here: https://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/ENA2018-bacteria-661k/

im3w1l 4 months ago | [–]

Ahh, I didn't notice that there were two adjacent links. I must have clicked the first one and gotten the article rather than the ftp.

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