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MinHash is a general dimensionality-reduction technique and it is used by Mash to reduce large sequences and sequence sets to small, representative sketches with the result that global mutation distances can be rapidly estimated.
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MinHash is a general dimensionality-reduction technique and it is used by Mash to reduce large sequences and sequence sets to small, representative sketches with the result that global mutation distances (Mash distances) can be rapidly estimated.

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Introduction

MinHash is a general dimensionality-reduction technique and it is used by Mash to reduce large sequences and sequence sets to small, representative sketches with the result that global mutation distances (Mash distances) can be rapidly estimated.