Bowtie 1/Bowtie 2

Introduction

Bowtie 1

Bowtie is an ultrafast, memory-efficient short read aligner. It aligns short DNA sequences (reads) to the human genome at a rate of over 25 million 35-bp reads per hour. Bowtie indexes the genome with a Burrows-Wheeler index to keep its memory footprint small: typically about 2.2 GB for the human genome (2.9 GB for paired-end).

Bowtie 2

Bowtie 2 is an ultrafast and memory-efficient tool for aligning sequencing reads to long reference sequences. It is particularly good at aligning reads of about 50 up to 100s or 1,000s of characters, and particularly good at aligning to relatively long (e.g. mammalian) genomes. Bowtie 2 indexes the genome with an FM Index to keep its memory footprint small: for the human genome, its memory footprint is typically around 3.2 GB. Bowtie 2 supports gapped, local, and paired-end alignment modes.

Installed version

The currently installed versions are

On environment hpc-uniol-env
Bowtie/1.1.2
Bowtie2/2.2.9

On environment hpc-env/6.4
Bowtie/1.2.2-intel-2018a
Bowtie2/2.3.4.1-intel-2018a
Bowtie2/2.3.4.3-foss-2017b
Bowtie2/2.3.5.1-GCC-6.4.0-2.28

On environment hpc-env/6.4
Bowtie2/2.4.1-GCC-8.3.0

Documentation

The full documentation of Bowtie can be found here and the documentation of Bowtie 2 can be found here.