2015-01-23

Version 2.1.1 of KMC is available.

Main changes:

• Small bug in KMC API fixed. It appeared only for huge input databases (i.e., more than 4G k-mers).

2014-12-18

Version 2.1 of KMC is available.

Main changes:

• Added a memory-limited mode in which KMC can collect k-mer statistics in 4 GB of RAM for huge datasets with only moderate slowdown.

2014-07-07

Version 2.0 of KMC is available.

Main changes:

• Completely new algorithm based on the ideas of signatures (generalization of minimizers) and (k, x)-mers.
• About twice faster than KMC 1.
• Up to 10 times less disk usage than KMC 1.
• Less less RAM usage than KMC 1.

2014-03-28

Version 1.0 of KMC is available.

Main changes:

• Support for multiline FASTA files (e.g., complete genomes, chromosomes).
• Support for counting reads containing k-mers (i.e., when more than 1 occurrence of k-mer is in a read, it is counted only once).
• Fixed small bugs.

2012-11-29

Version 0.3 of KMC is available.

2012-01-26

Version 0.1 of KMC is available.