Using SOAPaligner for Short Reads Alignment

Curr Protoc Bioinformatics. 2013 Dec 12:44:11.11.1-17. doi: 10.1002/0471250953.bi1111s44.

Abstract

This unit shows how to use the SOAPaligner package to align short reads to reference. The use of the two most common versions of SOAPaligner, SOAP2 and SOAP3-dp, will be described in detail. The unit also includes a protocol for SNP calling from SOAP2 alignment with SOAPsnp.

Keywords: GPU; SNP calling; SOAP; consensus; index; mapping.

MeSH terms

  • Genome, Human
  • Humans
  • Reference Standards
  • Sequence Alignment*
  • Software*