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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:33:51 -0500
From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
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| That's true, but it depends a lot on the app.
| The computational biology guys seem to love them
| for indexing large amounts of DNA.

Yes, but even there it's fair to say that opinion is mixed.  A lot of
really good bioinformatics code (e.g. blastz, megablast, blat) uses hash
table based methods instead.