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URMAP, an ultra-fast read mapper

View ORCID ProfileRobert C. Edgar
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.12.903351
Robert C. Edgar
Independent Investigator, Corte Madera, California, USA
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Abstract

Mapping of reads to reference sequences is an essential step in a wide range of biological studies. The large size of datasets generated with next-generation sequencing technologies motivates the development of fast mapping software. Here, I describe URMAP, a new read mapping algorithm. URMAP is an order of magnitude faster than BWA and Bowtie2 with comparable accuracy on a benchmark test using simulated paired 150nt reads of a well-studied human genome. Software is freely available at https://drive5.com/urmap.

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Robert C. Edgar
bioRxiv 2020.01.12.903351; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.12.903351
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