KmerGenie 1.7051
:: DESCRIPTION
KmerGenie estimates the best k-mer length for genome de novo assembly. Given a set of reads, KmerGenie first computes the k-mer abundance histogram for many values of k. Then, for each value of k, it predicts the number of distinct genomic k-mers in the dataset, and returns the k-mer length which maximizes this number. Experiments show that KmerGenie’s choices lead to assemblies that are close to the best possible over all k-mer lengths.
::DEVELOPER
:: SCREENSHOTS
N/A
:: REQUIREMENTS
- Linux/ Windows / MacOsX
- R package
- Python
:: DOWNLOAD
:: MORE INFORMATION
Citation:
Bioinformatics. 2014 Jan 1;30(1):31-7. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt310. Epub 2013 Jun 3.
Informed and automated k-mer size selection for genome assembly.
Chikhi R1, Medvedev P.