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^ a b c Langmead, Ben Cole Trapnell Mihai Pop Steven L Salzberg (4 March 2009).^ "Bowtie 2: fast and sensitive read alignment".^ "Bowtie: An ultrafast, memory-efficient short read aligner".There is no upper limit on read length in Bowtie 2 and it allows alignments to overlap ambiguous characters in the reference. Due to its implementation, Bowtie 2 is more suited to finding longer, gapped alignments in comparison with the original Bowtie method. In addition to the Burrows-Wheeler transform, Bowtie 2 also uses an FM-index (similar to a suffix array) to keep its memory footprint small. On 16 October 2011, the developers released a beta fork of the project called Bowtie 2. Because the search is greedy, the first valid alignment encountered by Bowtie will not necessarily be the 'best' in terms of the number of mismatches or in terms of quality.īowtie is used as a sequence aligner by a number of other related bioinformatics algorithms, including TopHat, Cufflinks and the CummeRbund Bioconductor package.
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īowtie conducts a quality-aware, greedy, randomized, depth-first search through the space of possible alignments. Bowtie is promoted as "an ultrafast, memory-efficient short aligner for short DNA sequences." The speed increase of Bowtie is partly due to implementing the Burrows–Wheeler transform for aligning, which reduces the memory footprint (typically to around 2.2GB for the human genome) a similar method is used by the BWA and SOAP2 alignment methods. The aligner is typically used with short reads and a large reference genome, or for whole genome analysis. The Bowtie sequence aligner was originally developed by Ben Langmead et al.