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 [![GitHub Downloads](https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/lh3/bwa/total.svg?style=flat)](https://github.com/lh3/bwa/releases)
 
 **Note: [minimap2][minimap2] has replaced BWA-MEM for PacBio and Nanopore read
-alignment.** It is ~50 times as fast, more accurate, produces better base-level
-alignment and works with long RNA-seq reads and long-read assemblies.
+alignment.** It retains all major BWA-MEM features, but is ~50 times as fast,
+more versatile, more accurate and produces better base-level alignment.
 
 [minimap2]: https://github.com/lh3/minimap2