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marginAlign, marginCaller, marginStats – tools to align nanopore reads to a reference genome


The marginAlign package can be used to align reads to a reference genome and call single nucleotide variations (SNVs). It is specifically tailored for Oxford Nanopore Reads

The package comes with three programs: marginAlign, a read aligner, marginCaller, a program to call single nucleotide variations, and marginStats, a program to compute simple qc stats on a sam file (alignment identity, coverage, insertion and deletion rates)

Release Date: 17-Aug-2015

Authors: Benedict Paten, Mark AKeson

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