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kmer

Fast K-Mer Counting and Clustering for Biological Sequence Analysis

v1.1.3 · Jan 22, 2026 · GPL-3

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Contains tools for rapidly computing distance matrices and clustering large sequence datasets using fast alignment-free k-mer counting and recursive k-means partitioning. See Vinga and Almeida (2003) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btg005> for a review of k-mer counting methods and applications for biological sequence analysis.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies openssl phylogram Rcpp aphid copyseparator insect kmer

Version History

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new 1.1.3 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.1.3 ← 1.1.2 diff Jan 22, 2026
updated 1.1.2 ← 1.1.1 diff May 19, 2019
updated 1.1.1 ← 1.1.0 diff Mar 14, 2019
updated 1.1.0 ← 1.0.2 diff Jul 3, 2018
updated 1.0.2 ← 1.0.1 diff Apr 6, 2018
updated 1.0.1 ← 1.0.0 diff Mar 15, 2018
new 1.0.0 Mar 5, 2018