Simka is a de novo comparative metagenomics tool. Simka represents each dataset as a k-mer spectrum and compute several classical ecological distances between them.
Developper: Gaëtan Benoit, PhD, former member of the Genscale team at Inria.
Contact: claire dot lemaitre at inria dot fr
Simka and SimkaMin are comparative metagenomics method dedicated to NGS datasets. https://gatb.inria.fr/software/simka/