mashmap
Version:2.0
2.0
Identifier: TL_434292.d1
Tool
Description
MashMap implements a fast and approximate algorithm for computing local alignment boundaries between long DNA sequences. It can be useful for mapping genome assembly or long reads (PacBio/ONT) to reference genome(s). Given a minimum alignment length and an identity threshold for the desired local alignments, Mashmap computes alignment boundaries and identity estimates using k-mers. It does not compute the alignments explicitly, but rather estimates a k-mer based Jaccard similarity using a combination of Minimizers and MinHash. This is then converted to an estimate of sequence identity using the Mash distance. An appropriate k-mer sampling rate is automatically determined using the given minimum local alignment length and identity thresholds. The efficiency of the algorithm improves as both of these thresholds are increased.