def parse_accessioning_counts_from_db(accession_db_counts_file):
    """Parse file that contains the accessioning counts.
    Expects 4 columns: assembly accession, taxonomy id, project id, datestamp, nb_ss_variants """
    accession_count = []
    with open(accession_db_counts_file) as open_file:
        for line in open_file:
            accession_count.append(line.strip().split('\t'))
    return accession_count