KMC_TOOLS-KMERS_SUBTRACT(1)

💖 KMC_TOOLS-KMERS_SUBTRACT 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the kmc_tools-kmers_subtract page, straight outta the KMC_TOOLS-KMERS_SUBTRACT(1) manual 💅 this is the one that does subtraction, and she eats every time 🔥

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✨ NAME ✨

kmc_tools-kmers_subtract — calculate subtraction of two KMC databases 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

kmc_tools kmers_subtract <input1 [input1_params]> <input2
[input2_params]> <output [output_params]>

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so basically?? the output database will contains only k-mers that are present in the first input set but absent in the second one 👑 and the counter value is equal to the value from the first input set, no cap 💯

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

For each input there are additional parameters, bestie, don't skip these:

• -ci<value> — exclude k-mers occurring less than <value> times 🙈
• -cx<value> — exclude k-mers occurring more of than <value> times 💀

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💜 For output there are additional parameters 💜

• -ci<value> — exclude k-mers occurring less than <value> times 🌸
• -cx<value> — exclude k-mers occurring more of than <value> times 🫶
• -cs<value> — maximal value of a counter ⭐

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🦋 EXAMPLE 🦋

look at her go, literally iconic:

kmc -k28 file1.fastq kmers1 tmp
kmc -k28 file2.fastq kmers2 tmp
kmc_tools kmers_subtract kmers1 kmers2 kmers1_kmers2_subtract -cs200

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

KMC was originally written by, and we stan:

• 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 🫶

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and that's the whole vibe, bestie 💖 this was KMC_TOOLS-KMERS_SUBTRACT(1), the very last line of the page, no date or version dropped alongside it — just the page name itself, so that's what we're signing off with 🌟 slay, go subtract some k-mers 🧚💜