Many genes are unique to the Y chromosome, but genes in areas known as pseudoautosomal regions are present on both sex chromosomes. As a result, men and women each have two functional copies of these genes.
Digital signal processor. A digital signal processor chip found in a guitar effects unit. A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor (or a SIP block), with its architecture optimized for the operational needs of digital signal processing. The goal of DSPs is usually to measure, filter and/or compress continuous real-world analog signals.
DSK is a k-mer counter for reads or genomes. It takes as input a set of sequences in FASTA or FASTQ format (see Input section). DSK outputs a set of solid kmers, i.e. kmers which occur more than a minimal amount of times in the input (-abundance-min parameter). It also outputs the number of times these kmers occur. See Results visualization section to learn how to use its output.