In repeat CG region, if k=5, s=2, then the smallest smer would never be at the start or end of kmer, could this secnario be the counter-example for window guarantee of circular closed syncmer? Or the CG-island should be special scenario?

The main text shows "Compare the second panel in row (A) with the second panel in row (G), which show that minimizers with w = 8 have compression 4.5 and conservation 0.47, while open syncmers with s = 3 and offset t = 2 have the same conservation with substantially better compression (5.9),". But in Figure 2, row (G) is not the offset open syncmers. Should it be the second panel in row S (panel T...

The open syncmers in the main text and caption of Table 4 are all s=31, but there is no s=31 in Table 4. Should it be s=21 in the main text and table caption?

Should the note of this table is: "Id short identifier used in Table 5" rather than "Table 3" ?

What are the depth and spacing entries? Were there general trends across the parameter space that could advise which parameter settings to look at?

What are the "-"s in the t column? I thought they were no offset, but isn't that t=1?

I may be misunderstanding the w parameter here or the minimap/kraken papers, but I thought Kraken was k=16,w=16 and minimap was k=15,w=5?

Shouldn't 1/4+1/4-1/16 = 0.4375 ?