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BarraCUDA is a C program which uses the BWA algorithm in parallel with nVidia CUDA to align short next generation DNA sequences against a reference genome. The genetically improved (GI) code is up to three times faster on short paired end…

Aligning millions of short DNA or RNA reads, of 75 to 250 base pairs each, to a reference genome is a significant computation problem in bioinformatics. We present a flexible and fast FPGA-based short read alignment tool. Our aligner makes…

Summary: BWA-MEM is a new alignment algorithm for aligning sequence reads or long query sequences against a large reference genome such as human. It automatically chooses between local and end-to-end alignments, supports paired-end reads…

Popular sequence alignment tools such as BWA convert a reference genome to an indexing data structure based on the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT), from which matches to individual query sequences can be rapidly determined. However the…

Genomics is changing our understanding of humans, evolution, diseases, and medicines to name but a few. As sequencing technology is developed collecting DNA sequences takes less time thereby generating more genetic data every day. Today the…

Summary: With the rapid development of long-read sequencing technologies, the era of individual complete genomes is approaching. We have developed wgatools, a cross-platform, ultrafast toolkit that supports a range of whole genome alignment…

With the advance in genome sequencing technology, the lengths of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequencing results are rapidly increasing at lower prices than ever. However, the longer lengths come at the cost of a heavy computational burden…

Summary: Longer sequencing reads, with at least 200 bases per template are now common. While traditional aligners have adopted new strategies to improve the mapping of longer reads, aligners specific to bisulfite-sequencing were optimized…

While short read aligners, which predominantly use the FM-index, are able to easily index one or a few human genomes, they do not scale well to indexing databases containing thousands of genomes. To understand why, it helps to examine the…

We present the Scalable Nucleotide Alignment Program (SNAP), a new short and long read aligner that is both more accurate (i.e., aligns more reads with fewer errors) and 10-100x faster than state-of-the-art tools such as BWA. Unlike recent…

The tremdendous advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies have made population-scale sequencing as performed in the 1000 Genomes project and the Genome of the Netherlands project possible. Next-generation sequencing has allowed…

Innovations in Next-Generation Sequencing are enabling generation of DNA sequence data at ever faster rates and at very low cost. Large sequencing centers typically employ hundreds of such systems. Such high-throughput and low-cost…

Software systems continuously evolve due to new functionalities, requirements, or maintenance activities. In the context of software evolution, software refactoring has gained a strategic relevance. The space of possible software…

To tackle the exponentially increasing throughput of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS), most of the existing short-read aligners can be configured to favor speed in trade of accuracy and sensitivity. SOAP3-dp, through leveraging the…

There are currently plenty of programs available for mapping short sequences (reads) to a genome. Most of them, however, including such popular and actively developed programs as Bowtie, BWA, TopHat and many others, are based on…

We present Masai, a read mapper representing the state of the art in terms of speed and sensitivity. Our tool is an order of magnitude faster than RazerS 3 and mrFAST, 2--3 times faster and more accurate than Bowtie 2 and BWA. The novelties…

Advances in DNA sequencing technology have stimulated the development of algorithms and tools for processing very large collections of short strings (reads). Short-read alignment and assembly are among the most well-studied problems. Many…

Motivation: Recent advances in sequencing technologies promise ultra-long reads of $\sim$100 kilo bases (kb) in average, full-length mRNA or cDNA reads in high throughput and genomic contigs over 100 mega bases (Mb) in length. Existing…

Motivation: A pan-genome graph represents a collection of genomes and encodes sequence variations between them. It is a powerful data structure for studying multiple similar genomes. Sequence-to-graph alignment is an essential step for the…

Due to the exponential growth of genomic data, constructing dedicated data structures has become the principal bottleneck in common bioinformatics applications. In particular, the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) is the basis of some of the…