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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2025

MAFcounter: an efficient tool for counting the occurrences of k-mers in MAF files.

Michail Patsakis, Kimonas Provatas, Aris Karatzikos, Charalampos Koilakos, Ioannis Mouratidis, Ilias Georgakopoulos-Soares

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2025. 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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Michail Patsakis *Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA.
Kimonas Provatas *Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA.
Aris KaratzikosDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA.
Charalampos KoilakosDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA.
Ioannis MouratidisDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA. ioannis.mouratidis@psu.edu.
Ilias Georgakopoulos-SoaresDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA. izg5139@psu.edu.

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Harnessing the Power of Kmers: Concepts and Methods for Genomic and Proteomic ResearchR35GM155468 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI Ilias Georgakopoulos-Soares · 2024 to 2026
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM155468NIGMS NIH HHS R35GM155468
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Abstract

motivationWith the rapid expansion of large-scale biological datasets, DNA and protein sequence alignments have become essential for comparative genomics and proteomics. These alignments facilitate the exploration of sequence similarity patterns, providing valuable insights into sequence conservation, evolutionary relationships and for functional analyses. Typically, sequence alignments are stored in formats such as the Multiple Alignment Format (MAF). Counting k-mer occurrences is a crucial task in many computational biology applications, but currently, there is no algorithm designed for k-mer counting in alignment files.

resultsWe have developed MAFcounter, the first k-mer counter dedicated to alignment files. MAFcounter is multithreaded, fast, and memory efficient, enabling k-mer counting in DNA and protein sequence alignment files with a wide variety of features for k-mer analysis. AVAILABILITY: MAFcounter is released under GPL license as a suite of binary C++ applications and is available at: https://github.com/Georgakopoulos-Soares-lab/MAFcounter .

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Computational BiologySequence AlignmentSequence Analysis, DNASoftwareAlgorithmsSequence Analysis, ProteinGenomicsk-mer countingMultiple sequence alignmentProteomics

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PMID40448014
PMCPMC12125892

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