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Fast and frugal disk based k-mer counter
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support extracting skip-mers rather than kmers from reads #143

Open notestaff opened 4 years ago

notestaff commented 4 years ago

As described at https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/179960v2 , extracting "skip-mers" (kmers that skip every 3rd base) can improve matching in coding regions. An option to extract such skip-mers rather than normal k-mers from input reads would be useful.

Related: #142