Hi,

My understanding is that BSgenome currently stores DNAStringSets in the
conventional RDA serialized format. What about using Rsamtools and it's
FAFile support to index directly into the files on disk. Having to load an
entire chromosome seems to be an unnecessary drain on memory and is slow
when the number of regions of interest is small (e.g., a single gene).

Thanks,
Michael

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