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Amazing, thank you!

I will take a look as soon as I get a chance. Looking at the BAM format, it looks like the tokenization portion will be easy. Which means I can focus on the compression side, which is more interesting.

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Another format that might be worth looking at in the bioinformatics world is hdf5. It's sort of a generic file format, often used for storing multiple related large tables. It has some built-in compression (gzip IIRC) but supports plugins. There may be an opportunity to integrate the self-describing nature of the hdf5 format with the self-describing decompression routines of openZL.

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