While we can compute smems very efficiently, there is still a long way to get
the alignment. On simulated data, this smem-based algorithm is 4X faster than
bwasw and twice as fast as bowtie2, but the accuracy is far lower than bwasw
and even lower than bowtie2 in the high-mapQ range. I am kind of sure that if
we continue to increase the mapping accuracy, the speed will approach to bwasw,
if not slower.
Smem-based mapping algorithm is still interesting, but given that I am short of
time, I will not explore it further.
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