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  1. Jellyfish is a tool for fast, memory-efficient counting of k-mers in
  2. DNA. A k-mer is a substring of length k, and counting the occurrences of
  3. all such substrings is a central step in many analyses of DNA sequence.
  4. Jellyfish can count k-mers quickly by using an efficient encoding of a
  5. hash table and by exploiting the "compare-and-swap" CPU instruction to
  6. increase parallelism.
  7. Jellyfish is a command-line program that reads FASTA and multi-FASTA
  8. files containing DNA sequences. It outputs its k-mer counts in an binary
  9. format, which can be translated into a human-readable text format using
  10. the "jellyfish dump" command. See the documentation below for more
  11. details.