CHTKC is a k-mer counting software written in C language. It is based on a lock-free hash table which uses chaining to resolve collisions.
The latest release of CHTKC source code can be downloaded from github.
To compile CHTKC, please ensure zlib (to support gzip-compressed inputs) and cmake (version 3.0.2 or higher) are installed on the target system.
The source code can be compiled using:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
makeThe build directory will contain two versions of CHTKC binary files:
chtkc: normal version.chtkco: optimized version.
The documentation of CHTKC can be found here.
CHTKC is distributed under GNU GPL 3 license.