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. 2017 Jul 12;33(14):i110–i117. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx235

Table 2.

Statistics on the distribution of the distances between minimizers in Figure 2

Ordering df distance low sep.
mean ± stdev %
dbg lexico. 2.18 5.5(34) 27
random 2.00 6.0(32) 18
Minimap 2.05 5.9(32) 21
KMC2 1.97 6.1(32) 18
UMD Ovl 1.91 6.3(30) 14
Kraken 1.88 6.4(29) 11
DOCKS 1.75 6.9(25) 4.6
human lexico. 2.34 5.1(34) 33
random 2.02 6.0(32) 19
Minimap 2.09 5.8(33) 22
KMC2 2.02 5.9(33) 19
UMD Ovl 1.97 6.1(31) 17
Kraken 1.93 6.2(30) 13
DOCKS 1.77 6.7(26) 6.2

The table reports the density factor (df), the mean distance between minimizers (mean ± stdev) and the percentage of selected k-mers that are consecutive or separated by one base (low sep.). These were computed on a de Bruijn sequence (dbg) and on the human genome sequence (human).