pblat: a multithread blat algorithm speeding up aligning sequences to genomes

Abstract Background The blat is a widely used sequence alignment tool. It is especially useful for aligning long sequences and gapped mapping, which cannot be performed properly by other fast sequence mappers designed for short reads. However, the blat tool is single threaded and when used to map wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Meng Wang, Lei Kong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-01-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-019-2597-8