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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2025

MUSET: set of utilities for constructing abundance unitig matrices from sequencing data.

Riccardo Vicedomini, Francesco Andreace, Yoann Dufresne, Rayan Chikhi, Camila Duitama González

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Riccardo VicedominiGenScale, Université de Rennes, Inria RBA, CNRS UMR 6074, F-35000 Rennes, France.
Francesco AndreaceInstitut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Sequence Bioinformatics Unit, F-75015 Paris, France.ORCID 0009-0008-0566-200X
Yoann DufresneInstitut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Sequence Bioinformatics Unit, F-75015 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0002-0930-8920
Rayan ChikhiInstitut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Sequence Bioinformatics Unit, F-75015 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0003-1099-8735
Camila Duitama GonzálezInstitut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Sequence Bioinformatics Unit, F-75015 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0001-6805-2331

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ANR ANR-22-CE45-0007Horizon Europe 872539
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Abstract

summaryMUSET is a novel set of utilities designed to efficiently construct abundance unitig matrices from sequencing data. Unitig matrices extend the concept of k-mer matrices by merging overlapping k-mers that unambiguously belong to the same sequence. MUSET addresses the limitations of current software by integrating k-mer counting and unitig extraction to generate unitig matrices containing abundance values, as opposed to only presence-absence in previous tools. These matrices preserve variations between samples while reducing disk space and the number of rows compared to k-mer matrices. We evaluated MUSET's performance using datasets derived from a 618-GB collection of ancient oral sequencing samples, producing a filtered unitig matrix that records abundances in <10 h and 20 GB memory. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: MUSET is open source and publicly available under the AGPL-3.0 licence in GitHub at https://github.com/CamilaDuitama/muset. Source code is implemented in C++ and provided with kmat_tools, a collection of tools for processing k-mer matrices. Version v0.5.1 is available on Zenodo with DOI 10.5281/zenodo.14164801.

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Computational BiologyHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingSequence Analysis, DNASoftwareAlgorithmsHumans

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