Rayan Chikhi

@RayanChikhi

Researcher in bioinformatics @institutpasteur and @CNRS. Tweets about methods for DNA sequencing data analysis, and genome assembly.

rayan.chikhi.name Joined September 2011

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Rayan Chikhi @RayanChikhi Sep 3, 2025

🌎👩‍🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵

Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.

doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Rayan Chikhi @RayanChikhi Jun 3, 2025

Slides from my talk (with Kamil Jaron) on an history of k-mers in bioinformatics: rayan.chikhi.name/pdf/2025-kmers…

Rayan Chikhi @RayanChikhi Feb 3, 2025

We have updated all Logan contigs, now at version 1.1! Contiguity has been much improved (2x) and a duplicated k-mers bug has been fixed. More information and changelog here: github.com/IndexThePlanet…

github.com Logan/Stats-v1.1.md at main · IndexThePlanet/Logan Logan Unitigs and Contigs. Contribute to IndexThePlanet/Logan development by creating an account on GitHub.

Rayan Chikhi @RayanChikhi Nov 28, 2024

SeqBim 2024 starts (program seqbim.cnrs.fr/seqbim-2024/#p…), with @krsahlin keynote presenting strobealign, high accuracy and fast short read aligner

Rayan Chikhi @RayanChikhi Nov 13, 2024

#genomeinformatics2024 starting, Camille Marchet (@CamilleMrcht) gives the first keynote on de Bruin Graphs and applications. Conf program …erences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/wp-content/upl…