Raptor: A fast and space-efficient pre-filter for querying very large collections of nucleotide sequences

Summary: We present Raptor, a system for approximately searching many queries such as next-generation sequencing reads or transcripts in large collections of nucleotide sequences. Raptor uses winnowing minimizers to define a set of representative k-mers, an extension of the interleaved Bloom filters...

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Main Authors: Enrico Seiler, Svenja Mehringer, Mitra Darvish, Etienne Turc, Knut Reinert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-07-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004221007501