KeBaB: $k$-mer based breaking for finding long MEMs

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Autori principali: Brown, Nathaniel K., Depuydt, Lore, Zakeri, Mohsen, Alhadi, Anas, Allam, Nour, Begleiter, Dove, Karpagavalli, Nithin Bharathi Kabilan, Khajjayam, Suchith Sridhar, Wahed, Hamza, Gagie, Travis, Langmead, Ben
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Brown, Nathaniel K.
Depuydt, Lore
Zakeri, Mohsen
Alhadi, Anas
Allam, Nour
Begleiter, Dove
Karpagavalli, Nithin Bharathi Kabilan
Khajjayam, Suchith Sridhar
Wahed, Hamza
Gagie, Travis
Langmead, Ben
author_facet Brown, Nathaniel K.
Depuydt, Lore
Zakeri, Mohsen
Alhadi, Anas
Allam, Nour
Begleiter, Dove
Karpagavalli, Nithin Bharathi Kabilan
Khajjayam, Suchith Sridhar
Wahed, Hamza
Gagie, Travis
Langmead, Ben
contents Long maximal exact matches (MEMs) are used in many genomics applications such as read classification and sequence alignment. Li's ropebwt3 finds long MEMs quickly because it can often ignore much of its input. In this paper we show that a fast and space efficient $k$-mer filtration step using a Bloom filter speeds up MEM-finders such as ropebwt3 even further by letting them ignore even more. We also show experimentally that our approach can accelerate metagenomic classification without significantly hurting accuracy.
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spellingShingle KeBaB: $k$-mer based breaking for finding long MEMs
Brown, Nathaniel K.
Depuydt, Lore
Zakeri, Mohsen
Alhadi, Anas
Allam, Nour
Begleiter, Dove
Karpagavalli, Nithin Bharathi Kabilan
Khajjayam, Suchith Sridhar
Wahed, Hamza
Gagie, Travis
Langmead, Ben
Data Structures and Algorithms
Long maximal exact matches (MEMs) are used in many genomics applications such as read classification and sequence alignment. Li's ropebwt3 finds long MEMs quickly because it can often ignore much of its input. In this paper we show that a fast and space efficient $k$-mer filtration step using a Bloom filter speeds up MEM-finders such as ropebwt3 even further by letting them ignore even more. We also show experimentally that our approach can accelerate metagenomic classification without significantly hurting accuracy.
title KeBaB: $k$-mer based breaking for finding long MEMs
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20338