One of the uses that we are most interested in MinHash sketches for is the indexing and search of large public, semi-public, and private databases. There are many specific use cases for this, but the basic goal is to be able to find data sets by content queries, using sequence …
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This is an update to last week's blog post, "Efficiently searching MinHash Sketch collections".
Last week, Thanksgiving travel and post-turkey somnolescence gave me some time to work more with our combined MinHash/SBT implementation. One of the main things the last post contained was a collection of MinHash signatures of …
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There is an update to this blog post: please see "Quickly searching all the microbial genomes, mark 2 - now with archaea, phage, fungi, and protists!
Note: This blog post is based largely on work done by Luiz Irber. Camille Scott, Luiz Irber, Lisa Cohen, and Russell Neches all collaborated on …
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Update: Zenodo will remove content upon request by the owner, and hence is not suitable for long-term archiving of published code and data. Please see my comment at the bottom (which is just a quote from an e-mail from a journal editor), and especially see "Ownership" and "Withdrawal" under Zenodo …
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We just finished teaching a two day workshop at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography down at UC San Diego. Dr. Harriet Alexander, a postdoc in my lab, and I spent two days going through cloud computing, short read quality and k-mer trimming, metagenome assembly, quantification of gene abundance, mapping of …
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Our first JOSS submission (paper? package?) is about to be accepted and I wanted to enthuse about the process a bit.
JOSS, the Journal of Open Source Software, is a place to publish your research software packages. Quoting from the about page,
The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is …read more
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