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RabbitTClust: enabling fast clustering analysis of millions bacteria genomes with MinHash sketches

Xu, X.; Yin, Z.; Yan, L.; Zhang, H.; Xu, B.; Wei, Y.; Niu, B.; Schmidt, B.; Liu, W.

2022-10-17 bioinformatics
10.1101/2022.10.13.512052 bioRxiv
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We present RabbitTClust, a fast and memory-efficient genome clustering tool based on sketch-based distance estimation. Our approach enables efficient processing of large-scale datasets by combining dimensionality reduction techniques with streaming and parallelization on modern multi-core platforms. 113,674 complete bacterial genome sequences (RefSeq: 455 GB in FASTA format) can be clustered within less than 6 minutes and 1,009,738 GenBank assembled bacterial genomes (4.0 TB in FASTA format) within only 34 minutes on a 128-core workstation. Our results further identify 1,269 repetitive genomes (identical nucleotide content) in RefSeq bacterial genomes.

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