Author: Jaroslaw Zola jaroslaw.zola@hush.com

ELaSTIC is a software suite for a rapid identification and clustering of similar sequences from large-scale biological sequence collections without explicit all-pairs alignment.

ELaSTIC is designed to work with data sets consisting of millions of DNA/RNA or amino acid strings, using various similarity criteria.

ELaSTIC is extremely efficient and scalable while maintaining sensitivity thanks to the clever use of the MinHash and sketching technique, and the application of carefully engineered parallel algorithms.

ELaSTIC follows a modular design, and it can be easily combined with other tools, like MCL, for the downstream analysis.