Minimap2

Assembly

Minimap2 is an pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences. It can perform the assembly-to-assembly alignment, and works with gzip'd FASTQ, FASTA formats. It also finds overlaps between long-reads.

Repository: github.com/lh3/minimap2

Source attribution

Awesome Bioinformatics — github.com/lh3/minimap2

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