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A fast multi-threaded k-mer counter
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How do I choose the size parameter #177

Open Iven-gif opened 3 years ago

Iven-gif commented 3 years ago

Hello, I want to use jellyfish but I don't understand the size parameter (-s). Suppose my genome size is about 1G and the Illumina short reads were 100 Gb (100× coverage), what should the size be?

Thanks,