Intra-DNA k-mer Conservation Patterns Encode Evolutionary Selection of Variants
Bernadette Mathew, Abhishek Halder, Nancy Jaiswal, Smruti Panda, Debjit Pramanik, Sreeram Chandra Murthy Peela, Abhishek Dinkarnath Garg, Sadhana Tripathi, Swarnava Samanta, Prashant Gupta, Vandana Malhotra, Gaurav Ahuja, Debarka Sengupta
The paper introduces kGain, a metric quantifying k-mer frequency shifts due to mutations, and shows it predicts adaptive potential across species and experimental systems.
iScience · Nov 1, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology