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Aligning sequence reads, clone sequences and assembly contigs with BWA-MEM

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arxiv 1303.3997 v2 pith:FZSGG5B7 submitted 2013-03-16 q-bio.GN

Aligning sequence reads, clone sequences and assembly contigs with BWA-MEM

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Summary: BWA-MEM is a new alignment algorithm for aligning sequence reads or long query sequences against a large reference genome such as human. It automatically chooses between local and end-to-end alignments, supports paired-end reads and performs chimeric alignment. The algorithm is robust to sequencing errors and applicable to a wide range of sequence lengths from 70bp to a few megabases. For mapping 100bp sequences, BWA-MEM shows better performance than several state-of-art read aligners to date. Availability and implementation: BWA-MEM is implemented as a component of BWA, which is available at http://github.com/lh3/bwa. Contact: hengli@broadinstitute.org

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