what is the kmer content in fastqc ?

Hello all I am learning some basics of NGS. I need help in quality analysis of NGS reads what is the kmer content ?

i gone through the fastqc manual but its out of my understanding

fastqc kmer rnaseq

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written 10.0 years ago by GHanumanth404 •

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From Wikipedia.

http://seqanswers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16262 (links for papers in this threads, if you want to dig deeper).

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written 10.0 years ago by GenoMax

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