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Calculating tetranucleotide (k-mer) frequencies

Jennifer Meneghin on September 01, 2022

Last week I posted about a Perl script I wrote that calculates %GC content for genome sequences. This week, I’m generalizing this idea to k-mers. I...
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Boyd Duffee

What were the average execution times for the scripts, or (what I really want to know is) how important is speed? Are we talking seconds, minutes or hours and how do the trials compare with a typical day-to-day workload?

Cheers, and good luck with the RPerl. I've heard the talk and am curious but never given it a spin.

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I finally got 'round to posting my reply Hope you like it ;)