These are not the k-mers you are looking for: efficient online k-mer counting using a probabilistic data structure.

K-mer abundance analysis is widely used for many purposes in nucleotide sequence analysis, including data preprocessing for de novo assembly, repeat detection, and sequencing coverage estimation. We present the khmer software package for fast and memory efficient online counting of k-mers in sequenc...

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Main Authors: Qingpeng Zhang, Jason Pell, Rosangela Canino-Koning, Adina Chuang Howe, C Titus Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4111482?pdf=render