In Part 1 of this post we discussed a data structure called a de Bruijn graph and covered its application to genome assembly. To summarize, a de Bruijn graph is a type of graph that represents a set of k-mers as a set of directed edges on …
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To provide a bit of context for a discussion of Euler paths and Euler cycles: starting around December, a group of us in the Lab for Data Intensive Biology (DIB Lab) started working through the textbook Bioinformatics Algorithms: An Active Learning Approach and the associated website, Rosalind.info.
Rosalind.info is a site that is similar in style …