CBCB scientist Todd Treangen and CBCB alumni Adam Phillippy and Sergey Koren publish a paper in Genome Biology describing Mash, a new software tool for fast genome and metagenome estimation based on MinHash dimensionality-reduction
Wed Jun 29, 2016
CBCB faculty Todd Treangen and CBCB alumni Adam Phillippy and Sergey Koren have published a paper titled “Mash: fast genome and metagenome distance estimation using MinHash” in Genome Biology on June 20, 2016.
In the paper, they demonstrate several use cases of Mash, including the clustering of all 54,118 NCBI RefSeq genomes in 33 CPU h; real-time database search using assembled or unassembled Illumina, Pacific Biosciences, and Oxford Nanopore data; and the scalable clustering of hundreds of metagenomic samples by composition.
The paper can be found here: https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-0997-x