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Metagenomic all-vs-all sample comparison, 10x faster

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The Human Microbiome Project: sample library analysis with Discount

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K-mer indexes with Discount 3.0.0

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We are proud to announce version 3.0 of our Spark-based k-mer counter Discount.

Towards petabyte-scale k-mer counting: Genome Informatics 2022 poster

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At Genome Informatics 2022, we presented a poster where we analyse how Discount might be scaled up to petabyte-scale k-mer counting.

Taxonomic classification with huge libraries: Kraken 2 for Spark

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We are proud to announce the availability of a new terabyte-scale implementation of the Kraken 2 (and Kraken 1) metagenomic classification tool.

Discount 2.3.0 released

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Version 2.3.0 of our Discount k-mer counter has been released. This version contains several new key features, including a “pregrouped” pipeline that ena...

Analysing a 6 TB planetary transcriptome with Spark

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Recently, the Serratus dataset (Nature paper) was released by Robert C. Edgar et al. Serratus is a collection of transcriptomic (RNA) assemblies data-mined f...

Discount 2.2.1

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Version 2.2.1 of our k-mer counter Discount fixes a bug in fastq parsing.