PURPOSE

Mash is a fast sequence distance estimator that uses the MinHash
algorithm and is designed to work with genomes and metagenomes in the
form of assemblies or reads. It is implemented in C++ and is
distributed with:

KSeq
  lh3lh3.users.sourceforge.net/kseq.shtml
  MIT License

MurmurHash3
  code.google.com/p/smhasher/wiki/MurmurHash3
  Public domain

Open Bloom Filter
  https://code.google.com/p/bloom/source/browse/trunk/bloom_filter.hpp
  Common Public License

Robin_Hood Unordered Map and Set
  https://github.com/martinus/robin-hood-hashing
  MIT License

COPYRIGHT LICENSE

Copyright © 2015, Battelle National Biodefense Institute (BNBI);
all rights reserved. Authored by: Brian Ondov, Todd Treangen,
Sergey Koren, and Adam Phillippy

This Software was prepared for the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) by the Battelle National Biodefense Institute, LLC (BNBI) as
part of contract HSHQDC-07-C-00020 to manage and operate the National
Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC), a Federally
Funded Research and Development Center.

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