Hierarchical genomic feature annotation with variable-length queries
Jarno Alanko, T. Rhyker Ranallo-Benavidez, Floris P Barthel, Simon J. Puglisi, Camille Marchet
The paper introduces HKS, a method for exact hierarchical k-mer annotation with variable-length queries, achieving high concordance in human genome assemblies.
bioRxiv · Mar 18, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics