mash

fast genome and metagenome distance estimation using MinHash

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/mash.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install mash
Ubuntu
apt-get install mash
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install mash
Fedora
dnf install mash
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mash
Raspbian
apt-get install mash

mash

fast genome and metagenome distance estimation using MinHash

Mash uses MinHash locality-sensitive hashing to reduce large biosequences to a representative sketch and rapidly estimate pairwise distances between genomes or metagenomes. Mash sketch databases effectively delineate known species boundaries, allow construction of approximate phylogenies, and can be searched in seconds using assembled genomes or raw sequencing runs from Illumina, Pacific Biosciences, and Oxford Nanopore. For metagenomics, Mash scales to thousands of samples and can replicate Human Microbiome Project and Global Ocean Survey results in a fraction of the time.