Summary: We present an extension of CUSHAW2 for fast and accurate alignments of SOLiD color-space short-reads. Our extension introduces a double-seeding approach to improve mapping sensitivity, by combining maximal exact match seeds and variable-length seeds derived from local alignments. We have compared the performance of CUSHAW2 to SHRiMP2 and BFAST by aligning both simulated and real color-space mate-paired reads to the human genome. The results show that CUSHAW2 achieves comparable or better alignment quality compared to SHRiMP2 and BFAST at an order-of-magnitude faster speed and significantly smaller peak resident memory size. Availability: CUSHAW2 and all simulated datasets are available at http://cushaw2.sourceforge.net. Contact: [email protected]; [email protected]
@article{arxiv.1304.4766,
title = {High-speed and accurate color-space short-read alignment with CUSHAW2},
author = {Yongchao Liu and Bernt Popp and Bertil Schmidt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.4766},
year = {2013}
}