The number of k-mer matches between two DNA sequences as a function of k and applications to estimate phylogenetic distances

• Sophie Röhling ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sophie Röhling, Alexander Linne

  Roles Software, Validation

  Affiliation University of Göttingen, Department of Bioinformatics, Göttingen, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4797-0536

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• Alexander Linne ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sophie Röhling, Alexander Linne

  Roles Software, Validation

  Affiliation University of Göttingen, Department of Bioinformatics, Göttingen, Germany

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• Jendrik Schellhorn,

  Roles Software, Validation

  Affiliation University of Göttingen, Department of Bioinformatics, Göttingen, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4478-7998

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• Morteza Hosseini,

  Roles Software, Validation

  Affiliation IEETA, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8962-8985

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• Thomas Dencker,

  Roles Software

  Affiliation University of Göttingen, Department of Bioinformatics, Göttingen, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5851-0068

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• Burkhard Morgenstern

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bmorgen@gwdg.de

  Affiliations University of Göttingen, Department of Bioinformatics, Göttingen, Germany, Göttingen Center of Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), Göttingen, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7431-2862

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