#54 Seeding methods for read alignment with Markus Schmidt

the bioinformatics chat by Roman Cheplyaka

Dec 16, 202001:00:46Science & Medicine

In this episode, Markus Schmidt explains how seeding in read alignment works. We define and compare k-mers, minimizers, MEMs, SMEMs, and maximal spanning seeds. Markus also presents his recent work on computing variable-...

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