4. GS De Novo Assembler and GS Reference Mapper Appendices
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4.6 Serial I/O
: 4.6.3 Guidelines for Use
4.6.3
Guidelines for Use
The serial I./O functionality is intended for use on large projects with many read files (greater than 10 million reads), for which the reduction in the time required to compute signals and create the output files justifies the time and resources required to create the sequential read file. Large genome assembly projects represent the best use of the serial I/O functionality. Sufficient hardware resources (RAM and disk space) must be available. Smaller scale projects may still benefit from using serial I/O, but the potential gains are much less and if these projects are run on platforms lacking sufficient resources, the use of serial I/O may actually degrade performance.
