From 38e751a40a2f6816f54e5fdb29e0b2accace616e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Heng Li Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 10:25:57 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] mention bwa-mem2 --- README.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 23762b8..58a4fad 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -5,8 +5,11 @@ **Note: [minimap2][minimap2] has replaced BWA-MEM for __PacBio and Nanopore__ read alignment.** It retains all major BWA-MEM features, but is ~50 times as fast, more versatile, more accurate and produces better base-level alignment. +A beta version of [BWA-MEM2][bwa-mem2] has been released for short-read mapping. +BWA-MEM2 is about twice as fast as BWA-MEM and outputs near identical alignments. [minimap2]: https://github.com/lh3/minimap2 +[bwa-mem2]: https://github.com/bwa-mem2/bwa-mem2 ## Getting started