Bowtie

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Application data

Created by Ben Langmead, Cole Trapnell
Principal bioinformatics method(s) Mapping, Burrows-Wheeler, FM-Index
Created at University of Maryland
Maintained? Maybe
Input format(s) FASTQ
Output format(s) SAM
Operating system(s) Mac OS X, Linux, Windows

Summary: Bowtie is an ultrafast, memory-efficient short read aligner.

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Bowtie aligns short DNA sequences (reads) to the human genome at a rate of 25 million reads per hour on a typical workstation with 2 gigabytes of memory. Bowtie indexes the genome with a Burrows-Wheeler index to keep its memory footprint small: 1.3 GB for the human genome. It supports alignment policies equivalent to Maq and SOAP but is much faster: about 35x faster than Maq and over 350x faster than SOAP when aligning to the human genome.

Limitations

  • Bowtie does not align reads with indels.


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References

  1. . 2009. Genome Biology
  2. . 2012. Nature Methods


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