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Jul 2026
MEGAHIT k-mer range tuning trades computational efficiency for improved recovery of functional genes across cave sediment and wastewater metagenomes
The study provides a quantitative basis for selecting MEGAHIT k-mer parameters according to whether computational efficiency or functional gene discovery is the primary aim, and indicates that reduced k-mer sets can lower computational cost but may miss biologically relevant functional signal, depending on the dataset and downstream target.
Alina Cărunta, H. Banciu, A. Mizeranschi
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