Agree, were basically set up to convert just about anything, but I don't
think all of it is actually used in practice
On Apr 28, 2014 12:34 PM, "Jai Ram Rideout" <notifications@github.com>
wrote:

> In biom/table.py:
>
> >      else:
> >          raise TableException("Unknown mat type")
> > +
> > +
> > +def to_sparse(values, transpose=False, dtype=float):
>
> Would love to gut a lot of the code from here to the end of the file- I'm
> not convinced we need to do as much data-juggling as we are. Not necessary
> for this PR though
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