Wow, sounds like you've had some experience in dealing with biology related flat files flat files. :)

Thanks for the tips. Two specific responses:

- I am definitely rewriting my script right now to use all 4 processors. As far as having sole access to the box, I'm the sysad of the box and I can definitely renice my jobs to take precedence over anyone else's stuff, but I'm at an academic institution and we don't have many people on our machines this late into the summer.

- I am using the GNU version of gzip, and unfortunately all of the databases were originally compressed by the NCBI. I doubt they thought of optimizations when compressing them as they just recently started using gzip format, but that's definitely a great tip that I can use and pass around. :)

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Best Practices for Uncompressing/Recompressing Files? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Best Practices for Uncompressing/Recompressing Files? by biosysadmin

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