Blini: lightweight nucleotide sequence search and dereplication

Blini is a tool for quick lookup of nucleotide sequences in databases, and for quick dereplication of sequence collections.It is meant to help cleaning and characterizing large collections of sequences that would otherwise be too big to search with BLAST (Altschul et al., 1990) or too demanding for a local machine to process, for example with Sourmash (Brown & Irber, 2016) or with MMseqs (Steinegger & Sding, 2018).Blini is designed to be fast and have a small memory footprint, while allowing the user to tweak its resource consumption to improve matching resolution.Finally, Blini is delivered as a single runnable binary, with no need to install any additional software.