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Large-scale sequence comparisons with sourmash

2019; Faculty of 1000; Volume: 8; Linguagem: Inglês

10.12688/f1000research.19675.1

2046-1402

N. Tessa Pierce‐Ward, Luiz Irber, Taylor Reiter, Phillip Brooks, C. Titus Brown,

Genetic diversity and population structure

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 available under the BSD license at http://github.com/dib-lab/sourmash.