v0.4.0

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The performance of the primary homology searching findGenes function has been improved about 6-fold. More features for accuracy have been added, including the use of a scaled kmer distance metric, and alignment of hits to the consensus of the reference sequence set.

Notable changes

• All kmer counting is bit-based, free of hashing, improving performance 6-fold to about 40 megabases/second
• Optional(but highly recommended) semi-global alignment of hits was implemented for improved accuracy
• Implemented brute-force sequence consensus to align hits to the average reference sequence
• Improved (but its still imperfect) Kmer distance estimation

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This discussion was created from the release v0.4.0.