KMC 3: counting and manipulating k‐mer statistics

Bioinform., 2017

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Summary: Counting all k‐mers in a given dataset is a standard procedure in many bioinformatics applications. We introduce KMC3, a significant improvement of the former KMC2 algorithm together with KMC tools for manipulating k‐mer databases. Usefulness of the tools is shown on a few real problems. Availability and implementation: Program is freely available at http://sun.aei.polsl.pl/REFRESH/kmc. Contact: sebastian.deorowicz@polsl.pl Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Molecular Biology

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