samtools/samtools — pull request #224 by daviesrob (2014-05-29 15:25:56+00:00)
Title: Add seq_cache_populate.pl

seq_cache_populate.pl builds a cache of reference files for the CRAM
codec to use. It can be given a list of fasta files to read on the
command line, or alternatively it can be made to search	a directory
tree for anything that looks like a fasta file.

The sequences in the resulting cache are stored	in files named after
the MD5 of the sequence itself. Samtools/htslib can be made to use the
cache by appropriate setting of the REF_PATH environment variable.