9 citations · 9 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
q-bio.GN2026
Fast genomic read alignment with minibwa
Heng Li, Nils Homer
Motivation: BWA-MEM remains a popular short-read mapper especially for the purpose of variant calling. Several groups have accelerated this algorithm as it has been the performance…
q-bio.GN2023★ 9 cited
Genome assembly in the telomere-to-telomere era
Heng Li, Richard Durbin
De novo assembly is the process of reconstructing the genome sequence of an organism from sequencing reads. Genome sequences are essential to biology, and assembly has been a centr…
q-bio.GN2022
Protein-to-genome alignment with miniprot
Heng Li
Motivation: Protein-to-genome alignment is critical to annotating genes in non-model organisms. While there are a few tools for this purpose, all of them were developed over ten ye…