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+Burrows-Wheeler Aligner (BWA) is an efficient program that aligns
+relatively short nucleotide sequences against a long reference
+sequence such as the human genome. It implements two algorithms, bwa-
+short and BWA-SW. The former works for query sequences shorter than
+200bp and the latter for longer sequences up to around 100kbp. Both
+algorithms do gapped alignment. They are usually more accurate and
+faster on queries with low error rates.
+
+If you use BWA-SW, please cite:
+Li H. and Durbin R. (2010) Fast and accurate long-read alignment with
+Burrows-Wheeler Transform. Bioinformatics, Epub.