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Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
10-15-2015
Citation
F1000Research (2015) 4: 900
Version 1
doi: 10.12688/f1000research.6924.1
Referees: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations
Abstract
The khmer package is a freely available software library for working efficiently with fixed length DNA words, or k-mers. khmer provides implementations of a probabilistic k-mer counting data structure, a compressible De Bruijn graph representation, De Bruijn graph partitioning, and digital normalization. khmer is implemented in C++ and Python, and is freely available under the BSD license at https://github.com/dib-lab/khmer.