Vigemers: on the number of $k$-mers sharing the same XOR-based minimizer

Florian Ingels; Antoine Limasset; Camille Marchet; Mikaël Salson

doi:10.48550/arxiv.2602.03337

Vigemers: on the number of $k$-mers sharing the same XOR-based minimizer

arXiv (Cornell University) 2026 Preprint Open access

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Authors: Florian Ingels, Antoine Limasset, Camille Marchet, Mikaël Salson

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.03337

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Abstract

In bioinformatics, minimizers have become an inescapable method for handling $k$-mers (words of fixed size $k$) extracted from DNA or RNA sequencing, whether for sampling, storage, querying or partitioning. According to some fixed order on $m$-mers ($m

Fields of Study & Subjects

Algorithms and Data Compression Fractal and DNA sequence analysis Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Publication details

Journal / source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date: 3 February 2026
Document type: Preprint