DISK COMPRESSION OF K-MER SETS

Disk compression of k-mer sets

Abstract K-mer based methods have become prevalent in many areas of bioinformatics.In applications such as database search, they often work with large multi-terabyte-sized datasets.Storing such large datasets is a detriment to tool developers, tool users, and reproducibility efforts.General purpose compressors like gzip, or those designed for read

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