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Burrow-Wheeler Aligner for short-read alignment (see minimap2 for long-read alignment)
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Clarify bwa mem -5 option #297

Closed nh13 closed 2 years ago

nh13 commented 4 years ago

Clarify that the -5 bwa mem option chooses the alignment that starts earliest in the read relative to the read/sequencing order, not genomic coordinate order