EcologyGenome BiologyPeer-reviewed
Assembly-free and alignment-free sample identification using genome skims
S. Sarmashghi, K. Bohmann, M. T. P. Gilbert…·S. Mirarab
The paper introduces Skmer, an alignment-free tool that uses k-mer decomposition to estimate genomic distances from genome skims, achieving high accuracy in identifying closest matches and inferring phylogeny.
DOI 10.1186/s13059-019-1632-4