Matchtigs: minimum plain text representation of k-mer sets

Autor: Sebastian Schmidt, Shahbaz Khan, Jarno N. Alanko, Giulio E. Pibiri, Alexandru I. Tomescu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Genome Biology, Vol 24, Iss 1, Pp 1-32 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1474-760X
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-023-02968-z
Popis: Abstract We propose a polynomial algorithm computing a minimum plain-text representation of k-mer sets, as well as an efficient near-minimum greedy heuristic. When compressing read sets of large model organisms or bacterial pangenomes, with only a minor runtime increase, we shrink the representation by up to 59% over unitigs and 26% over previous work. Additionally, the number of strings is decreased by up to 97% over unitigs and 90% over previous work. Finally, a small representation has advantages in downstream applications, as it speeds up SSHash-Lite queries by up to 4.26× over unitigs and 2.10× over previous work.
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