What is BWA?

Burrows-Wheeler Aligner (BWA) is a software package for mapping relatively short DNA sequences against a large reference genome, such as the human genome. It is commonly used in bioinformatics for tasks like variant calling, genome resequencing, and identifying structural variations in DNA sequences. BWA uses the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) to efficiently compress and index the reference genome, allowing for fast and accurate alignment of sequencing reads even with mismatches and gaps.

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What other technologies are related to BWA?

BWA Competitor Technologies

Bowtie

Bowtie is another alignment tool, and is a direct competitor to BWA. It is often used for shorter reads.

BLAST

BLAST is another alignment tool, and is a direct competitor to BWA. BLAST is typically used for comparing nucleotide or protein sequences, while BWA is optimized for aligning sequencing reads to a reference genome.

STAR

STAR is an aligner specifically designed for RNA sequencing data. It is a competitor to BWA, especially in the context of RNA-seq.

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BWA Complementary Technologies

GATK

GATK is a widely used toolkit for variant discovery in high-throughput sequencing data, often used downstream of alignment tools like BWA.

samtools

Samtools is a suite of tools for manipulating and analyzing SAM/BAM files, which are the standard output format for BWA. It is essential for processing BWA's output.

bedtools

Bedtools is used for a wide range of genomic arithmetic operations. It operates on coordinate-based data and is useful for analyzing alignments generated by BWA.

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Which job functions commonly mention BWA?

Bioinformatics

2.4% of all Bioinformatics jobs mention BWA

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Bioinformatician

1.5% of all Bioinformatician jobs mention BWA

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Biologist

0.6% of all Biologist jobs mention BWA

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Scientist

0.1% of all Scientist jobs mention BWA

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Epidemiologist

0.1% of all Epidemiologist jobs mention BWA

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Which organizations are mentioning BWA?

Weill Cornell Medicine

Educational Services

NYU Langone Health

Health Care and Social Assistance

HCLTech

Professional Services

Regeneron

Manufacturing

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Public Administration

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