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Disk storage usage of different k-mer counting tools to calculate k-mer abundance histograms in GB (y axis), plotted against the number of distinct k-mers in the data set (x axis).
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posted on 2014-07-25, 03:13 authored by Qingpeng Zhang, Jason PellJason Pell, Rosangela Canino-Koning, Adina Chuang Howe, C. Titus BrownC. Titus BrownNote that khmer does not use the disk during counting or retrieval, although its hash tables can be saved for reuse.