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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2021

MQF and buffered MQF: quotient filters for efficient storage of k-mers with their counts and metadata.

Moustafa Shokrof, C Titus Brown, Tamer A Mansour

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Space-efficient representation of genomic k-mer count tables.Algorithms for molecular biology : AMB · 2022
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Moustafa ShokrofDepartment of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
C Titus BrownDepartment of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
Tamer A MansourDepartment of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, USA. drtamermansour@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4747-4241

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Abstract

backgroundSpecialized data structures are required for online algorithms to efficiently handle large sequencing datasets. The counting quotient filter (CQF), a compact hashtable, can efficiently store k-mers with a skewed distribution.

resultHere, we present the mixed-counters quotient filter (MQF) as a new variant of the CQF with novel counting and labeling systems. The new counting system adapts to a wider range of data distributions for increased space efficiency and is faster than the CQF for insertions and queries in most of the tested scenarios. A buffered version of the MQF can offload storage to disk, trading speed of insertions and queries for a significant memory reduction. The labeling system provides a flexible framework for assigning labels to member items while maintaining good data locality and a concise memory representation. These labels serve as a minimal perfect hash function but are ~ tenfold faster than BBhash, with no need to re-analyze the original data for further insertions or deletions.

conclusionsThe MQF is a flexible and efficient data structure that extends our ability to work with high throughput sequencing data.

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MetadataSoftwareAlgorithmsHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingSequence Analysis, DNACompact hash tablesDebruijn graphsInexact data structuresk-mersNGS

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PMID33593271
PMCPMC7885209

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