microTaboo: a general and practical solution to the k-disjoint problem

Abstract Background A common challenge in bioinformatics is to identify short sub-sequences that are unique in a set of genomes or reference sequences, which can efficiently be achieved by k-mer (k consecutive nucleotides) counting. However, there are several areas that would benefit from a more str...

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Main Authors: Mohammed Al-Jaff, Eric Sandström, Manfred Grabherr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-05-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-017-1644-6