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6 years ago The limit is just imposed by argument checking; specifically, see line 168 of Command.cpp. But note that the current limit of 32 comes from the fact that at most 64 bits of the hash will be used, so longer k-mers could have hash collisions. This isn't necessarily a problem, but just be aware that we haven't really tested with longer k-mers.
Hello! I'm enjoying using Mash to characterize population structure for my set of bacterial genomes. Thank you for making this software!
As it turns out, I have some very closely related strains for which higher values of k (e.g., k = 50) might be helpful. However, it seems like the current maximum is k = 32. How would you modify the source code to allow for larger k values?
Thanks!