Citation
If you publish research that uses gerbil you have to cite it as follows:
Erbert, M., Rechner, S., & Müller-Hannemann, M. (2017). Gerbil: A fast and memory-efficient k-mer counter with GPU-support. Algorithms for Molecular Biology, 12, 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13015-017-0097-9