International Business Machines Corporation

Amir Abboud

Daniel Waddington

Mark Kunitomi

Samyukta Satish Rao

A computer-implemented method includes receiving genomic data associated with a plurality of genomes and identifying k-mer sets within the genomic data. The method includes constructing a k-mer subset tree according to the following process: performing iterative pairwise comparisons on the k-mer sets, wherein the iterative pairwise comparisons identify fragments with the most shared k-mers, merging the identified fragments into non-leaf nodes of the k-mer subset tree, and placing each remaining k-mer into a leaf node of the k-mer subset tree. The method includes storing the k-mer subset tree. A computer program product for data compression includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions are executable by a computer to cause the compute to perform the foregoing method. A system includes a processor and logic. The logic is configured to perform the foregoing method.

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Amir Abboud