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 Minimap2 is the successor of [minimap][minimap]. It uses a similar
 minimizer-based indexing and seeding algorithm, and improves the original
 minimap with homopolyer-compressed k-mers (see also [SMARTdenovo][smartdenovo]
-and [longISLND][longislnd]), better chaining and fast extension alignment (see
-also [libgaba][gaba] and [ksw2][ksw2]).
+and [longISLND][longislnd]), better chaining and the ability to produce CIGAR
+with fast extension alignment (see also [libgaba][gaba] and [ksw2][ksw2]).
 
 ## Limitations