Frith MC, Noé L, Kucherov G.

Bioinformatics. 2020 Dec 21;36(22-23):5344–50. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa1054.

Minimally-overlapping words for sequence similarity search.

Sparse seeds made of minimally overlapping words improve the speed with a good tradeoff on sensitivity. Describes the seeds RY4, …, RY32 used in LAST.