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jellyfish genomescope

Eaton Lab edited this page Sep 28, 2020 · 3 revisions

One method for counting kmers and estimating gcs

To be compared with kmerfreq + gce

https://github.com/gmarcais/Jellyfish/tree/master/doc#Counting-high-frequency-k-mers
https://github.com/schatzlab/genomescope

Pros:

  • Uses much less RAM than kmerfreq, which is especially useful if we want to run this on cloud instances where high-mem costs more money.

Cons:

  • requires installing R
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