Large-scale sequence comparisons with sourmash [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

oleh: N. Tessa Pierce, Luiz Irber, Taylor Reiter, Phillip Brooks, C. Titus Brown

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: F1000 Research Ltd 2019-07-01

Deskripsi

The sourmash software package uses MinHash-based sketching to create “signatures”, compressed representations of DNA, RNA, and protein sequences, that can be stored, searched, explored, and taxonomically annotated. sourmash signatures can be used to estimate sequence similarity between very large data sets quickly and in low memory, and can be used to search large databases of genomes for matches to query genomes and metagenomes. sourmash is implemented in C++, Rust, and Python, and is freely available under the BSD license at http://github.com/dib-lab/sourmash.