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The sketching makes assembly extremely fast: a gut metagenome sample of 138Gbp of sequencing data was assembled in less that 2h and 10G RAM on 8 threads ⚡. And thanks to MSRs, *highly similar strains are not collapsed*

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MSRs have been defined by @lblassel.bsky.social @rayanchikhi.bsky.social and @pashadag.bsky.social in pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC....
Take a sequence, a value of k, and stream all k-mers through a function that output either a base or the empty character, and you got your sketch

So glad to have participated in #DSB2025, what a great workshop! For some mysterious reason it was the first time I attended after 3 years of sequence research. Thanks to all participants & organizers 😃

So glad to have successfully defended my Ph.D. last week 😀 Work on producing haplotype-resolved metagenomic assemblies using noisy long reads (HairSplitter) and high-fidelity long reads (Alice assembler, unpublished yet).
Thanks to my advisors Dominique Lavenier and Jean-François Flot ❤️