Quikr

This is the homepage for quikr.

What is Quikr?

Quikr is a QUadratic, Iterative, K-mer based Reconstruction technique that utilizes sparsity promoting ideas from the field of compressed sensing to reconstruct the composition of a bacterial community (when the input data is 454-like pyrosequencing data). This extremely fast method comes with a several databases that can be custom trained. Typically reconstruction is accurate down to the genus level.

How Do I Install Quikr?

Please read the directions on the installation page.

How Do I use Quikr?

We have several ways to use quikr. Quikr is first and formost a command line utility, but we also provide python and matlab scripts.

• Command Line Utilities
• Matlab documentation
• Python documentation

Contact

For issues with the quikr software, contact gailro@gmail.com

License

The Quikr project is released under the GPL-3 License. Please view the LICENSE file for more details.

Contributors

• David Koslicki
• Simon Foucart
• Gail Rosen
• Calvin Morrison
• Jean-Luc Bouchot