Summary: Counting all k-mers in a given dataset is a standard procedure in many bioinformatics applications. We introduce KMC3, a significant improvement of the former KMC2 algorithm together with KMC tools for manipulating k-mer databases. Usefulness of the tools is shown on a few real problems. Availability: Program is freely available at http://sun.aei.polsl.pl/REFRESH/kmc. Contact: sebastian.deorowicz@polsl.pl
Cite
@article{arxiv.1701.08022,
title = {KMC 3: counting and manipulating k-mer statistics},
author = {Marek Kokot and Maciej Długosz and Sebastian Deorowicz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.08022},
year = {2017}
}