BWTaligner: a genome short-read aligner
The development of next-generation sequencing technologies has helped sequence large genomes easily, producing a huge number of short-reads - small fragments of DNA. Despite the existence of many developed alignment tools, mapping short-read datasets to the reference genome, a crucial step of genom...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Vietnam Journal of Science, Technology and Engineering |
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| Online Access: | https://vietnamscience.vjst.vn/index.php/vjste/article/view/246 |
| Summary: | The development of next-generation sequencing technologies has helped sequence large genomes easily, producing a huge number of short-reads - small fragments of DNA. Despite the existence of many developed alignment tools, mapping short-read datasets to the reference genome, a crucial step of genome analysis, still remains a challenge. In this study, we develop a short-read alignment program, BWTaligner, based on the Burrows-Wheeler transform compression - exact and inexact matching. We tested it on the paired-end read data simulated from chromosome 9 of the rice genome to compare the alignment and single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) calling between our aligner and BWA - the preferred alignment program. The results showed that the BWA delivers higher recall and F-score, while BWTaligner has better precision in high coverage depth.
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| ISSN: | 2525-2461 2615-9937 |