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diff --git a/academic/jellyfish_k-mer/README b/academic/jellyfish_k-mer/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7988cded9c --- /dev/null +++ b/academic/jellyfish_k-mer/README @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Jellyfish is a tool for fast, memory-efficient counting of k-mers in +DNA. A k-mer is a substring of length k, and counting the occurrences of +all such substrings is a central step in many analyses of DNA sequence. +Jellyfish can count k-mers quickly by using an efficient encoding of a +hash table and by exploiting the "compare-and-swap" CPU instruction to +increase parallelism. + +Jellyfish is a command-line program that reads FASTA and multi-FASTA +files containing DNA sequences. It outputs its k-mer counts in an binary +format, which can be translated into a human-readable text format using +the "jellyfish dump" command. See the documentation below for more +details. |