bwa-mem2-alignment

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Accelerate genome alignment with BWA-MEM2, achieving 2-3x speedup with identical results.

Authorpradyumnasagar
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides a significant speedup in genome alignment using BWA-MEM2, enabling faster processing of genomic data without compromising on accuracy.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Speedup: Achieve 2-3x faster alignment compared to BWA-MEM.
  • Accuracy: Maintains identical results to BWA-MEM.
  • Use Case: Ideal for production pipelines where alignment time is a bottleneck, such as WGS and WES pipelines.

Quick Start

Align a human genome with BWA-MEM2 by running the following command: bwa-mem2 mem -t 16 -M -K 100000000 -R '@RG... reference/genome.fa reads/R1.fq.gz reads/R2.fq.gz | samtools sort -@ 8 -m 4G -o s1.sorted.bam -

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

bwa-mem2samtools

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