what is the kmer content in fastqc ?

Question

[GHanumanth404]

Hello all I am learning some basics of NGS. I need help in quality analysis of NGS reads what is the kmer content ?

i gone through the fastqc manual but its out of my understanding

Answer 1

[GenoMax]

From Wikipedia.

http://seqanswers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16262 (links for papers in this threads, if you want to dig deeper).