AUTHOR=Salzberg Steven L. , Wood Derrick E. 

TITLE=Releasing the Kraken

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Bioinformatics

VOLUME=1

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/bioinformatics/articles/10.3389/fbinf.2021.808003

DOI=10.3389/fbinf.2021.808003

ISSN=2673-7647

ABSTRACT=<p>Ten years ago, the dramatic rise in the number of microbial genomes led to an inflection point, when the approach of finding short, exact matches in a comprehensive database became just as accurate as older, slower approaches. The new idea led to a method that was hundreds of times times faster than those that came before. Today, exact k-mer matching is a standard technique at the heart of many microbiome analysis tools.</p>