feat: add benchmark pipeline, expose APIs, and enforce strict paths

Introduces a Make-based orchestration for simulating, indexing, merging, filtering, and verifying k-mer counts and presence. Exposes internal builder and iterator APIs publicly, enforces mandatory leading slashes for predicate patterns, registers the `obitaxonomy` crate, and updates tooling configurations alongside documentation.

benchmark/verify_one_count.sh

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Usage: verify_one_count.sh SPECIMEN
+# SPECIMEN = "species--strain" (Make pattern stem)
+# Output: stats/verify_count/SPECIMEN.stats (one CSV data row, no header)
+set -euo pipefail
+
+SPECIMEN="$1"
+SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
+BINARY="${SCRIPT_DIR}/../src/target/release/obikmer"
+PYTHON="${SCRIPT_DIR}/../.venv/bin/python3"
+VERIFY_PY="${SCRIPT_DIR}/verify_count.py"
+
+species="${SPECIMEN%%--*}"
+strain="${SPECIMEN#*--}"
+
+REF_NPZ="${SCRIPT_DIR}/reference_index/${SPECIMEN}.npz"
+INDEX_DIR="${SCRIPT_DIR}/specimen_index_count/${SPECIMEN}"
+STATS_DIR="${SCRIPT_DIR}/stats/verify_count"
+STATS_FILE="${STATS_DIR}/${SPECIMEN}.stats"
+
+mkdir -p "${STATS_DIR}"
+
+echo "[${SPECIMEN}] verifying count"
+
+"${PYTHON}" "${VERIFY_PY}" \
+    --obikmer "${BINARY}" \
+    --species "${species}" \
+    --strain  "${strain}" \
+    "${REF_NPZ}" "${INDEX_DIR}" \
+    >"${STATS_FILE}"