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bio-read-alignment-bwa-alignment

Maintainer FreedomIntelligence · Last updated April 1, 2026

Align short reads to reference genome with BWA-MEM.

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https://github.com/FreedomIntelligence/OpenClaw-Medical-Skills/tree/main/skills/bio-read-alignment-bwa-alignment

Maintainer
FreedomIntelligence
License
MIT
Last updated
April 1, 2026

Skill Snapshot

Key Details From SKILL.md

2 min

Key Notes

  • bwa-mem2 index reference.fa.
  • bwa-mem2 mem -t 8 reference.fa reads_1.fq.gz reads_2.fq.gz > aligned.sam.

Source Doc

Excerpt From SKILL.md

Single-end reads

bwa-mem2 mem -t 8 reference.fa reads.fq.gz > aligned.sam


## Add read group information (required for GATK)

bwa-mem2 mem -t 8 \
    -R '@RG\tID:sample1\tSM:sample1\tPL:ILLUMINA\tLB:lib1' \
    reference.fa reads_1.fq.gz reads_2.fq.gz > aligned.sam

Pipe to samtools for sorted BAM output

bwa-mem2 mem -t 8
-R '@RG\tID:sample1\tSM:sample1\tPL:ILLUMINA'
reference.fa reads_1.fq.gz reads_2.fq.gz |
samtools sort -@ 4 -o aligned.sorted.bam -

Use cases

  • Use bio-read-alignment-bwa-alignment for manuscript drafting and submission workflows.
  • Apply bio-read-alignment-bwa-alignment when polishing research communication outputs.

Not for

  • Do not treat this catalog entry as a substitute for the full upstream workflow.

Upstream Related Skills

  • read-qc/fastp-workflow - Preprocess reads before alignment
  • alignment-files/alignment-sorting - Post-alignment processing
  • alignment-files/duplicate-handling - Mark duplicates
  • variant-calling/variant-calling - Call variants from BAM

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