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. 2017 Aug 17;45(18):e159. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx702

Figure 2.

Figure 2.

An overview of Neptune’s signature extraction process. The reference is decomposed into its composite k-mers. These k-mers may be classified as either inclusion or exclusion and are used to infer inclusion and exclusion sequence in the reference. A signature is constructed from inclusion k-mers containing sufficiently small k-mer gaps and no exclusion k-mers.