Blasr – Basic Local Alignment with Successive Refinement

Blasr

:: DESCRIPTION

BLASR is a software for mapping Single Molecule Sequencing (SMS) reads that are thousands of bases long, with divergence between the read and genome dominated by insertion and deletion error.

::DEVELOPER

Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Linux
  • C++ Compiler

:: DOWNLOAD

  BLASR

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

BMC Bioinformatics. 2012 Sep 19;13:238. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-238.
Mapping single molecule sequencing reads using basic local alignment with successive refinement (BLASR): application and theory.
Chaisson MJ, Tesler G.