BWA-MEM2 reimplements the classic BWA-MEM algorithm with vectorised, cache-friendly code, delivering ~2–3× speedups while producing identical alignments.
Example
1bwa-mem2 index ref.fa2bwa-mem2 mem -t 16 ref.fa r1.fq r2.fq | samtools sort -o aln.bam
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