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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Matthew A. Davis, San Jose, CA (US);
Mark Kunitomi, San Francisco, CA (US);
James H. Kaufman, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods are disclosed for reducing the size of a k-mer reference database used for queries and/or taxonomic classifications when available computer storage and/or memory are inadequate. The k-mers of the reference database have been previously classified to a taxonomy, preferably based on genetic distances. In one method, the k-mers are separated into one or more groups followed by removing k-mers common to the groups. In another method, k-mers are removed based on a selected taxonomic threshold level. A third method combines the features of the previous two methods. The methods are adaptable to machine learning.