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SUBMITTER: Pierce NT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6720031 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pierce N Tessa NT Irber Luiz L Reiter Taylor T Brooks Phillip P Brown C Titus CT
F1000Research 20190704
The sourmash software package uses MinHash-based sketching to create "signatures", compressed representations of DNA, RNA, and protein sequences, that can be stored, searched, explored, and taxonomically annotated. sourmash signatures can be used to estimate sequence similarity between very large data sets quickly and in low memory, and can be used to search large databases of genomes for matches to query genomes and metagenomes. sourmash is implemented in C++, Rust, and Python, and is freely av ...[more]