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Luca Renders

Ghent UniversityORCID 0000-0002-2244-1427Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:bacteria (other)· 2 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Organism:human· 1 Research Focus:software / tool· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Jan FostieriD· 2 shared Lore DepuydtiD· 2 shared Travis GagieiD· 2 shared Lennart Veys· 1 shared Simon Van de VyveriD· 1 shared

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BioinformaticsBioinformaticsPeer-reviewedDec 1, 2025

Columba: Fast Approximate Pattern Matching withOptimized Search Schemes

Luca Renders, Lore Depuydt, Travis Gagie, Jan Fostier

Columba is a high-performance lossless aligner for Illumina sequencing data that outperforms existing tools in speed and memory efficiency, particularly for large datasets.

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humanbacteria (other)

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintMay 30, 2024

b-move: faster bidirectional character extensions in a run-length compressed index

Lore Depuydt, Luca Renders, Simon Van de Vyver…·Jan Fostier

The paper introduces b-move, a bidirectional extension of the move structure for run-length compressed indices, achieving faster character extensions than existing methods while maintaining memory efficiency.

DOI 10.1101/2024.05.30.596587

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