The number of 10-mers needed to hit all 30-long sequences in four genomes: Two bacterial genomes <i>A. tropicalis</i>, <i>C. crescentus</i>, the worm <i>C. elegans</i> and a mammal genome, <i>H. sapiens</i>.

The genome sizes are quoted after removing all Ns and ambiguous codes. We tested three algorithms: minimizers picking the lexicographically smallest 10-mer, minimizer picking the first in a random k-mer ordering, and selection using the set produced by DOCKS. In case of multiple DOCKS-selected 10-mers in the 30-long window, the lexicographically smallest was chosen. # mers is the number of distinct 10-mers selected, and avg. dist. is the average distance between two selected 10-mers.