An optimized FM-index library for nucleotide and amino acid search

Abstract Background Pattern matching is a key step in a variety of biological sequence analysis pipelines. The FM-index is a compressed data structure for pattern matching, with search run time that is independent of the length of the database text. Implementation of the FM-index is reasonably compl...

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Main Authors: Tim Anderson, Travis J. Wheeler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-12-01
Series:Algorithms for Molecular Biology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13015-021-00204-6