BigBWA: approaching the Burrows-Wheeler aligner to Big Data technologies.
BigBWA is a new tool that uses the Big Data technology Hadoop to boost the performance of the Burrows-Wheeler aligner (BWA). Important reductions in the execution times were observed when using this tool. In addition, BigBWA is fault tolerant and it does not require any modification of the original BWA source code.


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BigBWA is available at the project GitHub repository: https://github.com/citiususc/BigBWA.
CITIUS, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain and.
José M
JM
Abuín
CITIUS, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain and.
Juan C
JC
Pichel
CITIUS, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain and.
Tomás F
TF
Pena
Genomics Medicine Group (GMX), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Jorge
J
Amigo
D000465:Algorithms; D023281:Genomics; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software