Releasing the Kraken

Steven L. Salzberg; Steven L. Salzberg; Steven L. Salzberg; Steven L. Salzberg; Derrick E. Wood; Derrick E. Wood

doi:10.3389/fbinf.2021.808003

Frontiers in Bioinformatics (Dec 2021)

Releasing the Kraken

Steven L. Salzberg,
Steven L. Salzberg,
Steven L. Salzberg,
Steven L. Salzberg,
Derrick E. Wood,
Derrick E. Wood

Affiliations

Steven L. Salzberg: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Steven L. Salzberg: Center for Computational Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Steven L. Salzberg: Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Steven L. Salzberg: Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Derrick E. Wood: Center for Computational Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Derrick E. Wood: Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fbinf.2021.808003
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 1

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Ten years ago, the dramatic rise in the number of microbial genomes led to an inflection point, when the approach of finding short, exact matches in a comprehensive database became just as accurate as older, slower approaches. The new idea led to a method that was hundreds of times times faster than those that came before. Today, exact k-mer matching is a standard technique at the heart of many microbiome analysis tools.

Published in Frontiers in Bioinformatics

ISSN: 2673-7647 (Online)
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General): Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics
Website: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/bioinformatics

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