Fast sequence alignment for genomics analysis
BWA-MEM2 Alignment
BWA-MEM2 is a faster and optimized version of the widely used BWA-MEM aligner. It performs sequence alignment of short and long sequencing reads against a reference genome while maintaining compatibility with BWA-MEM output.
BWA-MEM2 aligns sequencing reads using the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) and Smith-Waterman alignment algorithms. It is designed for high-performance computing environments and significantly reduces alignment runtime while producing accurate mappings.
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bwa-mem2 mem Ref.fa reads_R1.fastq reads_R2.fastq > output.sam
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