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by noamteyssier 226 days ago
Shows up a lot in bioinformatics actually - trying to identify sequences with a specific subsequence (grep) and how many of each unique sequence there are. The number of lines here could be massive (order of 1-10's of GB)

You don't really end up using these results in any specific analysis but it's super helpful for troubleshooting tools or edge-cases.