Contributors and AcknowledgementsΒΆ

khmer is a product of the GED lab at Michigan State University,

C. Titus Brown <ctb@msu.edu> wrote the initial ktable and hashtable implementations, as well as hashbits and counting_hash.

Jason Pell implemented many of the C++ k-mer filtering functions.

Qingpeng contributed code to do unique k-mer counting.

Adina Howe, Rosangela Canino-Koning, and Arend Hintze contributed significantly to discussions of approaches and algorithms; Adina wrote a number of scripts.

Jared T. Simpson (University of Cambridge, Sanger Institute) contributed paired-end support for digital normalization.

Eric McDonald thoroughly revised many aspects of the code base, made much of the codebase threadsafe, and otherwise improved performance dramatically.

Michael R. Crusoe is the new maintainer of khmer.

MRC 2013-10-03

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