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resolves #1817

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- **Very fast:** LAPIS was originally developed to query SARS-CoV-2 sequences and, therefore, capable to process
millions of sequences efficiently. It uses [SILO](https://github.com/GenSpectrum/LAPIS-SILO) as its data query
engine.
millions of sequences efficiently. It uses [RhyDB](https://github.com/GenSpectrum/LAPIS-SILO) as its

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## Further Reading

- Documentation of SILO in its [GitHub repository](https://github.com/GenSpectrum/LAPIS-SILO/).
- Documentation of RhyDB in its [GitHub repository](https://github.com/GenSpectrum/LAPIS-SILO/).

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Under the hood, LAPIS delegates storage and fast filter execution to
[**SILO**](https://github.com/GenSpectrum/LAPIS-SILO), a purpose-built sequence database.
[**RhyDB**](https://github.com/GenSpectrum/LAPIS-SILO), a purpose-built sequence database.

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The LAPIS code is open source and available at https://github.com/GenSpectrum/LAPIS.
LAPIS is a convenience API around SILO, a high-performance query engine for genomic sequences.
LAPIS is a convenience API around RhyDB, a high-performance query engine for genomic sequences.
The code is available at https://github.com/GenSpectrum/LAPIS-SILO.

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Comment thread CONTRIBUTING.md
This layer maps the request to a
[SILO query](https://github.com/GenSpectrum/LAPIS-SILO/blob/main/documentation/query_documentation.md).
A SILO query consists of two parts:
[RhyDB query](https://github.com/GenSpectrum/LAPIS-SILO/blob/main/documentation/query_documentation.md).

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Comment thread README.md
* **Very fast**: LAPIS was originally developed to query SARS-CoV-2 sequences
and, therefore, capable to process millions of sequences efficiently.
It uses [SILO](https://github.com/GenSpectrum/LAPIS-SILO) as its data query engine.
It uses [RhyDB](https://github.com/GenSpectrum/LAPIS-SILO) as its data query engine.

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Rename SILO to RhyDB: docs

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