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dib-lab / 2020-paper-sourmash-gather

Here we describe an extension of MinHash that permits accurate compositional analysis of metagenomes with low memory and disk requirements.
https://dib-lab.github.io/2020-paper-sourmash-gather
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is Scaled MinHash still a sketch if it's unbounded in size? #5

Open ctb opened 3 years ago

ctb commented 3 years ago

I have questions.

luizirber commented 3 years ago

I think so, sketches are usually defined as "constant or sublinear space", so being unbounded is not a limitation. Maybe refer to "Sketching and Sublinear Data Structures in Genomics"?