BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
MEGAHIT k-mer range tuning trades computational efficiency for improved recovery of functional genes across cave sediment and wastewater metagenomes
Alina Cărunta, Horia Leonard Banciu, Alexandru Eugeniu Mizeranschi
The paper evaluates how different k-mer settings in MEGAHIT affect functional gene recovery in metagenomes, showing trade-offs between computational efficiency and gene discovery.
DOI 10.64898/2026.07.17.739120