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bowtie2: ultrafast sequence aligner

Overview of package

Package: bowtie2
Description: ultrafast sequence aligner
For more information: http://bowtie-bio.sourceforge.net/bowtie2
Categories: Genomics
License: Unknown

General Usage

Bowtie2 is an ultrafast and memory-efficient tool for aligning sequencing reads to long reference sequences. It is particularly good at aligning reads of about 50 up to 100s of characters to relatively long (e.g. mammalian) genomes.

This module will add the bowtie2 and related commands to your PATH

You might also wish to look at the bowtie package.

Available versions by cluster

This section lists the available versions of the package bowtie2on the UMD HPC clusters.

Versions available on the Zaratan cluster

Version Module tags CPU(s) optimized for GPU ready?
2.4.2 2.4.2 zen2 Yes