Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

作者：Langmead Ben^*; Trapnell Cole; Pop Mihai; Salzberg Steven L

来源：Genome Biology: biology for the post-genomic era , 2009, 10(3): R25.

DOI：10.1186/gb-2009-10-3-r25

Bowtie is an ultrafast, memory-efficient alignment program for aligning short DNA sequence reads to large genomes. For the human genome, Burrows-Wheeler indexing allows Bowtie to align more than 25 million reads per CPU hour with a memory footprint of approximately 1.3 gigabytes. Bowtie extends previous Burrows-Wheeler techniques with a novel quality-aware backtracking algorithm that permits mismatches. Multiple processor cores can be used simultaneously to achieve even greater alignment speeds. Bowtie is open source http://bowtie.cbcb.umd.edu.

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