Assembly-free and alignment-free sample identification using genome skims
S. Sarmashghi, K. Bohmann, M. T. P. Gilbert, V. Bafna, 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.
Genome Biology · Feb 13, 2019Peer-reviewedEcology