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bases with optional newlines
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bases with optional newlines
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The author is talking about removing the non-semantic optional newlines (hard wrapping), not all the newlines in the file.
It makes a lot of sense that this would work: bacteria have many subsequences in common, but if you insert non-semantic newlines at effectively random offsets then compression tools will not be able to use the repetition effectively.
It makes a lot of sense that this would work: bacteria have many subsequences in common, but if you insert non-semantic newlines at effectively random offsets then compression tools will not be able to use the repetition effectively.