Table 1.

Number of distinct and total k-mers for our datasets

	k=28		k=55
kmers	32GB	125GB	32GB	125GB
Distinct	12,551,234 K	37,337,258 K	14,203,028 K	47,830,662 K
Total	22,173,612 K	86,674,803 K	18,722,642 K	73,209,044 K