docs: Update README to reflect new indexing workflow

Replace the documented direct combined indexing command with a two-step workflow. This involves building separate exact indexes per genome, merging them into a single multi-genome index via `obikmer merge`, and keeping the approximate index conversion unchanged.
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Eric Coissac
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## Quick start ## Quick start
```sh ```sh
# Build an exact index for two genomes # Build an exact index for each genome independently
obikmer index --kmer-size 31 --label genome_a genome_a.fa --output index/ obikmer index --kmer-size 31 --label genome_a genome_a.fa --output index_a/
obikmer index --kmer-size 31 --label genome_b genome_b.fa --output index/ obikmer index --kmer-size 31 --label genome_b genome_b.fa --output index_b/
# Merge into a single multi-genome index
obikmer merge --output index/ index_a/ index_b/
# Convert to approximate index (z=5, 8-bit fingerprints) # Convert to approximate index (z=5, 8-bit fingerprints)
obikmer reindex --approx -z 5 --evidence-bits 8 index/ obikmer reindex --approx -z 5 --evidence-bits 8 index/