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SUBMITTER: Siragusa E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3627565 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Siragusa Enrico E Weese David D Reinert Knut K
Nucleic acids research 20130128 7
We present Masai, a read mapper representing the state-of-the-art in terms of speed and accuracy. Our tool is an order of magnitude faster than RazerS 3 and mrFAST, 2-4 times faster and more accurate than Bowtie 2 and BWA. The novelties of our read mapper are filtration with approximate seeds and a method for multiple backtracking. Approximate seeds, compared with exact seeds, increase filtration specificity while preserving sensitivity. Multiple backtracking amortizes the cost of searching a la ...[more]