# Rust build artifacts (catch ALL target directories, including nested)
/target/
**/target/
Cargo.lock

# IDE files
.vscode/
.idea/
*.swp
*.swo
*~

# OS files
.DS_Store
Thumbs.db

# Test data
datasets/
*.fq
*.fq.gz
*.fa
*.fa.gz
*.bam
*.bam.bai
tests/data/large/

# Benchmark results
bench_results/
target/criterion/
proptest-regressions/

# Python virtual environments
.venv/
venv/
env/
.env/

# Jupyter notebook outputs
.ipynb_checkpoints/
**/.ipynb_checkpoints/

# External dependencies (to prevent nested git repos)
experiments/*/external/
**/external/*/.git/
