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Burrows-Wheeler read alignment: a standalone construct

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Bioinformatics

mapping short sequencing reads to a reference using a compressed index of the transformed reference string.

In bioinformatics, Burrows-Wheeler read alignment refers to mapping short sequencing reads to a reference using a compressed index of the transformed reference string. This meaning comes from Li (2009) in Bioinformatics.[1]

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References

Li, H., & Durbin, R. (2009). Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform. Bioinformatics, 25(14), 1754-1760. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btp324

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