Speed up database construction pipeline

.gitignore

@@ -18,4 +18,3 @@ out
 scripts/helper_scripts/parser/output
 scripts/helper_scripts/parser/src/META-INF
 .idea/
-

scripts/build_binaries.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#! /usr/bin/env bash
+
+# All references to an external script should be relative to the location of this script.
+# See: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/028
+CURRENT_LOCATION="${BASH_SOURCE%/*}"
+
+checkdep() {
+    which $1 > /dev/null 2>&1 || hash $1 > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
+        echo "Unipept database builder requires ${2:-$1} to be installed." >&2
+        exit 1
+    }
+}
+
+checkdep cargo "Rust toolchain"
+
+# Build binaries and copy them to the /helper_scripts folder
+cd $CURRENT_LOCATION/helper_scripts/unipept-database-rs
+cargo build --release
+find ./target/release -maxdepth 1 -type f -executable -exec cp {} .. \;

scripts/helper_scripts/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# Ignore the compiled binaries that get moved here
+dat-parser
+functional-analysis
+lcas
+taxa-by-chunk
+taxons-lineages
+taxons-uniprots-tables
+write-to-chunk
+xml-parser

scripts/helper_scripts/filter_taxa.sh

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ mkdir -p "$TMP_DIR"
 
 filter_taxa() {
 	QUERY=$(echo "\s$1\s" | sed "s/,/\\\s\\\|\\\s/g")
-	RESULT=$(cat "$LINEAGE_ARCHIVE" | zcat  | grep "$QUERY" | cut -f1 | sort -n | uniq | tr '\n' ',')
+	RESULT=$(lz4 -dc "$LINEAGE_ARCHIVE" | grep "$QUERY" | cut -f1 | sort -n | uniq | tr '\n' ',')
 	echo "$RESULT"
 }
 
@@ -23,16 +23,16 @@ then
   TAXA=$(filter_taxa "$TAXA")
 
   # This associative array maps a filename upon the taxa that should be queried within this file
-  QUERIES=( $(echo "$TAXA" | tr "," "\n" | node "$CURRENT_LOCATION/TaxaByChunk.js" "$DATABASE_INDEX" "$TMP_DIR") )
+  QUERIES=( $(echo "$TAXA" | tr "," "\n" | $CURRENT_LOCATION/taxa-by-chunk --chunk-dir "$DATABASE_INDEX" --temp-dir "$TMP_DIR") )
 
   if [[ ${#QUERIES[@]} -gt 0 ]]
   then
-    parallel --jobs 8 --max-args 2 "cat {2} | zcat | sed 's/$/$/' | grep -F -f {1} | sed 's/\$$//'" ::: "${QUERIES[@]}"
+    parallel --jobs 8 --max-args 2 "lz4 -dc {2} | sed 's/$/$/' | grep -F -f {1} | sed 's/\$$//'" ::: "${QUERIES[@]}"
   fi
 else
 
   # If the root ID has been passed to this script, we simply print out all database items (without filtering).
-  find "$DATABASE_INDEX" -name "*.chunk.gz" | xargs zcat
+  find "$DATABASE_INDEX" -name "*.chunk.lz4" -exec lz4 -mdc {} +
 fi
 
 # Remove temporary files