<![CDATA[BOL: sourmash: Quickly search, compare, and analyze genomic and metagenomic data sets.]]> https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/44589/sourmash-quickly-search-compare-and-analyze-genomic-and-metagenomic-data-sets? https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/44589/sourmash-quickly-search-compare-and-analyze-genomic-and-metagenomic-data-sets Sat, 06 Jul 2024 04:24:06 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/44589/sourmash-quickly-search-compare-and-analyze-genomic-and-metagenomic-data-sets <![CDATA[sourmash: Quickly search, compare, and analyze genomic and metagenomic data sets.]]> sourmash is a k-mer analysis multitool, and we aim to provide stable, robust programmatic and command-line APIs for a variety of sequence comparisons. Some of our special sauce includes:

  • FracMinHash sketching, which enables accurate comparisons (including ANI) between data sets of different sizes
  • sourmash gather, a combinatorial k-mer approach for more accurate metagenomic profiling

Please see the sourmash publications for details.

The name is a riff off of Mash, combined with @ctb's love of whiskey. (Sour mash is used in making whiskey.)

Maintainers: C. Titus Brown (@ctb), Luiz C. Irber, Jr (@luizirber), and N. Tessa Pierce-Ward (@bluegenes).

sourmash was initially developed by the Lab for Data-Intensive Biology at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, and now includes contributions from the global research and developer community.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/sourmash-bio/sourmash

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