Bowtie

An ultrafast memory-efficient short read aligner

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Consider using Illumina's iGenomes collection. Each iGenomes archive contains pre-built Bowtie and Bowtie 2 indexes.

H. sapiens, NCBI GRCh38 2.7 GB
H. sapiens, NCBI GRCh38
with 1KGenomes major SNPs
2.7 GB
  How we built this, FASTA
H. sapiens, UCSC hg19 2.7 GB
 colorspace: full
H. sapiens, UCSC hg19
with 1KGenomes major SNPs
2.7 GB
  How we built this, FASTA
H. sapiens, UCSC hg18 2.7 GB
 colorspace: full
H. sapiens, NCBI v37 2.7 GB
 colorspace: full
H. sapiens, NCBI v36 2.7 GB
 colorspace: full
M. musculus, UCSC mm8 2.4 GB
 colorspace: full
M. musculus, UCSC mm9 2.4 GB
 colorspace: full
M. musculus, NCBI v37 2.4 GB
 colorspace: full
R. norvegicus, UCSC rn4 2.4 GB
 colorspace: full
B. taurus, UMD v3.0 2.4 GB
 colorspace: full
C. familiaris, UCSC canFam2 2.4 GB
 colorspace: full
G. gallus, UCSC, galGal3 1.1 GB
 colorspace: full
D. melanogaster, Flybase, r5.22 150 MB
 colorspace: full
A. thaliana, TAIR, TAIR9 120 MB
 colorspace: full
C. elegans, Wormbase, WS200 75 MB
 colorspace: full
S. cerevisiae, CYGD 15 MB
 colorspace: full
E. coli, NCBI, st. 536 5 MB
 colorspace: full

All indexes are for assemblies, not contigs. Unplaced or unlocalized sequences and alternate haplotype assemblies are excluded.

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