Disk compression of k-mer sets

Abstract K-mer based methods have become prevalent in many areas of bioinformatics. In applications such as database search, they often work with large multi-terabyte-sized datasets. Storing such large datasets is a detriment to tool developers, tool users, and reproducibility efforts. General purpo...

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Main Authors: Amatur Rahman, Rayan Chikhi, Paul Medvedev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-06-01
Series:Algorithms for Molecular Biology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13015-021-00192-7