<![CDATA[BOL: Understanding kmer !]]> https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/43273/understanding-kmer? https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/43273/understanding-kmer Wed, 18 Aug 2021 04:27:51 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/43273/understanding-kmer <![CDATA[Understanding kmer !]]> What is a k-mer anyway? A k-mer is just a sequence of k characters in a string (or nucleotides in a DNA sequence). Now, it is important to remember that to get all k-mers from a sequence you need to get the first k characters, then move just a single character for the start of the next k-mer and so on. Effectively, this will create sequences that overlap in k-1 positions.

Address of the bookmark: https://bioinfologics.github.io/post/2018/09/17/k-mer-counting-part-i-introduction/

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