kmer

English

Etymology

k +‎ -mer

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪmə(ɹ)

Noun

kmer (plural kmers)

1. (genetics) A motif of length "k"
   • 2015, Shanmuga Sozhamannan et al., “Evaluation of Signature Erosion in Ebola Virus Due to Genomic Drift and Its Impact on the Performance of Diagnostic Assays”, in Viruses‎^[1], volume 7, →DOI:

     BioVelocity could not run on normal cluster architectures with limited memory, or would take orders of magnitude longer if secondary storage were used for the kmer hash tables.

Anagrams

• Merk, merk