Talk: Classify Billion base pairs per Second

During 25th Feb 2026, a joint meetup was hosted by BangPypers & SciPy India.

There was a slot for lightning talk & I gave a talk on Kraken2 performance optimisations titled as "Classify billion base pairs per second".

I didn't had time to polish the slides. During the talk, I briefly covered:

• What is metagenomics?
• Overview of open source classification tools
• Brief intro to Kraken2
• Performance optimizations in Kraken2

Few years back, I wrote a series of posts on Mastering Kraken2 where I covered all the optimizations in detail. If you want to dig deeper into the topic, you can check out the series.