What Will Be The Pros/Cons If We Convert The Entire Embl Databases To Hdf5 Format

Question

[chaitu]

Are there any advantages to store the entire EMBL databases to HDF5? If so what will be the efficient way to store them

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

what Michael said: "HDF5 is best used when the data can be formatted as a multidimensional large array where random access is required to known coordinates in constant time." A: how to store and view nucleotide data from Embl format in HDF5 format