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

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Langmead, Ben, Trapnell, Cole, Pop, Mihai, Salzberg, Steven L·2009·Genome Biology

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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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Authors
Langmead, B., Trapnell, C., Pop, M., & Salzberg, S. L.
Affiliations
University of Maryland, College Park (US)
Corresponding author
Langmead, Ben
Venue
Genome Biology
Published
2009-03-04
Volume
10
Issue
3
Pages
R25-R25
ISSN
  • 1465-6906 (ISSN-L)
  • 1474-760X
OpenAlex
W2124985265
Cited by
21,849
References
29
Citations by year
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FWCI
267.58
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Genome biology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • University Libraries (University of Maryland) (submittedVersion)
  • Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (University of Maryland College Park)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (R01HG004885)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM083873)
  • U.S. National Library of Medicine (R01LM006845)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Algorithms and Data Compression
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Fractal and DNA sequence analysis
Keywords
Bowtie, human genome, memory-efficient alignment, parallel alignment, next-generation sequencing reads
MeSH terms
Algorithms, Base Sequence, Humans, Genome, Human, Sequence Alignment

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