KMC_TOOLS-COMPACT(1)

💖 KMC_TOOLS-COMPACT(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the compact page of the KMC tools manual, you're gonna eat this up ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

kmc_tools-compact — it removes counters of k-mers. that's it. that's the whole job. iconic behaviour honestly 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

kmc_tools compact <inputdb> [input_params] <output>

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like, this command removes counters from the database and stores only k-mers. no counts, no receipts, no drama. just the k-mers, main character energy only 👑

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

for each input there are additional parameters, and yes you need to know them:

• -ci<value> — exclude k-mers occurring less than <value> times. bye to the little rare ones 🫶
• -cx<value> — exclude k-mers occurring more than <value> times. bye to the loud ones 😭

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

kmc_tools compact wy_kmc2 -ci3 -cx1000 wy_kmc1

look at her go, filtering out anything under 3 and over 1000, slay 🍓

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

KMC was originally written by these absolute legends:

• Sebastian Deorowicz (sebastian.deorowicz@polsl.pl)
• Marek Kokot
• Szymon Grabowski
• Agnieszka Debudaj-Grabysz

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⭐ COPYING ⭐

KMC is a free software distributed under GNU GPL3 licence for academic, research, and commercial use. so yes you can use it, yes for school, yes for research, yes for your bag 💰 periodt.

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and that's the whole page bestie 🎀 this was KMC_TOOLS-COMPACT(1), part of the KMC_TOOLS family — no extra version or date on this one, just the title doing its little cameo at the top and bottom. go forth and compact, iykyk 💖✨