what about including marker gene "sketches" in sourmash?

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Open ctb opened 5 years ago

ctb commented 5 years ago

...there's no reason we need to stick with k-mer-based signatures alone. what would this look like?

ctb commented 5 years ago

maybe the simplest idea would be to include (in the signature) a compressed representation of marker genes, e.g. their protein sequence.

ctb commented 3 years ago

ref #1421 #1000 #548