Efficient counting of <b><it>k</it></b>-mers in DNA sequences using a bloom filter
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Counting <it>k</it>-mers (substrings of length <it>k </it>in DNA sequence data) is an essential component of many methods in bioinformatics, including for genome and transcriptome assembly, for metagenomic seq...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2011-08-01
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Series: | BMC Bioinformatics |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/12/333 |