Fix a stray prefix in the README heading and update documentation to reflect the query pipeline's operation on `s-mers` (`s = k - z + 1`) with post-partition z-window filtering. Clarify the Findere trick, including k-mer size reduction, consecutive match requirements, and false positive rate calculations. Additionally, expand input format documentation to cover supported file extensions, gzip compression, recursive directory handling, and `query` command specifications.
Restructure architecture documentation to reflect the decoupled `MphfLayer` design wrapped by `LayeredStore<S>` and enforce strict multi-genome column invariants. Introduce the approximate index architecture, replacing exact `evidence.bin` with compact `fingerprint.bin` using B-bit fingerprints and z-consecutive k-mer matching. Update CLI flags, add `reindex`/`estimate` workflows, and refactor APIs to support separate exact/approximate evidence handling. Finally, provide a comprehensive on-disk layout specification, including the pipeline state machine, JSON schemas, binary formats, and refined Strategy B unitig evidence details.
Replace the dense per-chunk offset index with a sparse block-sampled structure (64 chunks per block), reducing the index file size by approximately 300× while preserving O(1) k-mer extraction. Introduce a design document for eliminating the `evidence.bin` file, which accounts for ~66% of the lookup layer, by transitioning to fingerprint-based approximate indexing and value-based MPHF lookups. Update MkDocs navigation to include the new documentation and add a file count tracker to the scatter step progress bar for improved observability.
Eric Coissac