.. _`khmer`:

khmer
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khmer is a library and suite of command line tools for working with DNA sequence. It is primarily aimed at short-read sequencing data such as that produced by the Illumina platform. khmer takes a k-mer-centric approach to sequence analysis, hence the name.

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Home     https://khmer.readthedocs.org/
Versions 2.0
License  BSD-3-Clause
Recipe   https://github.com/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/tree/master/recipes/khmer/2.0
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Installation
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.. highlight: bash

With an activated Bioconda channel (see :ref:`setup`), install with::

   conda install khmer

and update with::

   conda update khmer