Fast Probabilistic File Fingerprinting for Big Data

Konstantin Tretyakov^*1,  Sven Laur¹,  Geert Smant²,  Jaak Vilo¹ and Pjotr Prins<sup>*2,3

1</sup> Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia
² Laboratory of Nematology, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands
³ Groningen Bioinformatics Center, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
^* Corresponding author

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The article is publicly available at the BMC Genomics website:

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Presentation slides

Slides of the presentation made at ISCB-Asia 2012.

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The PFFF tool

PFFF is an open-source command-line tool for performing file fingerprinting. Note that it is not always applicable nor faster than plain MD5 (see the paper), but there are particular contexts where it may provide significant winnings.

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• Source code
  • The source code is hosted on github. Feel free to fork.

Supplementary text and files

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