Kaminari: a resource-frugal index for approximate colored k-mer queries
Victor Levallois, Yoshihiro Shibuya, Bertrand Le Gal, Yoann Dufresne, Rob Patro, Pierre Peterlongo, Giulio Ermanno Pibiri
Kaminari improves approximate k-mer query performance by using k-mer minimizers and integer compression, outperforming Bloom filters in memory and speed with minimal false positive impact.
Bioinformatics Advances · Jan 1, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics