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As with samtools, bwa also went through some re-structuring, so that it has an old-style tw-step ('''aln''' and '''sam{s,p}e''') usage, characterised by the following typical sequence of commands:
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bwa index reference.fa
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bwa aln -I -t 8 reference.fa s_1.txt > out.sai
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bwa samse reference.fa out.sai s_1.txt > out.sam
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samtools view -bSu out.sam | samtools sort -  out.sorted
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And then a more modern usage which consists of just one step: '''bwa mem'''.
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== Indexing ==
 
== Indexing ==
  
 
When bwa indexes a reference, it will use the whole filename and generate output index files with extensions added onto this name.
 
When bwa indexes a reference, it will use the whole filename and generate output index files with extensions added onto this name.

Revision as of 14:12, 30 November 2016

Introduction

Heng Li's aligner.

Usage

As with samtools, bwa also went through some re-structuring, so that it has an old-style tw-step (aln and sam{s,p}e) usage, characterised by the following typical sequence of commands:

bwa index reference.fa
bwa aln -I -t 8 reference.fa s_1.txt > out.sai
bwa samse reference.fa out.sai s_1.txt > out.sam
samtools view -bSu out.sam | samtools sort -  out.sorted

And then a more modern usage which consists of just one step: bwa mem.


Indexing

When bwa indexes a reference, it will use the whole filename and generate output index files with extensions added onto this name.