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List Of Short Kmers Never To Be Seen In The Human Genome To Be Uses As Barcodes?

Is there a compiled list of kmers of k as short as possible, say between 20-30, that are never to be seen in a human genome or viral genomes or DNA contamination potentially present in a human resequencing run? I would like to use those as barcodes. Any ideas?

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updated by Casey Bergman Casey Bergman • written by Ahdf-Lell-Kocks • Ahdf-Lell-Kocks

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I think you are asking about so-called "nullomers". See this paper for a definition and discussion: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0001022

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updated by Michael Dondrup Michael Dondrup • written by Casey Bergman Casey Bergman

I've never heard of that. Cool.

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written by Damian Kao Damian Kao

I second that - never thought about this

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