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BWA

Burrows-Wheeler Aligner (BWA) is an efficient program that aligns relatively short nucleotide sequences against a long reference sequence such as the human genome.

homepage: http://bio-bwa.sourceforge.net/

Available installations

BWA version Supported CPU targets Supported GPU targets EESSI version Module
0.7.17-20220923 generic: aarch64, x86_64
Arm: a64fx, neoverse_n1, neoverse_v1, nvidia/grace
AMD: zen2, zen3, zen4
Intel: haswell, skylake_avx512, sapphirerapids, icelake, cascadelake
(none) 2023.06 BWA/0.7.17-20220923-GCCcore-12.3.0
0.7.18 generic: aarch64, x86_64
Arm: a64fx, neoverse_n1, neoverse_v1, nvidia/grace
AMD: zen2, zen3, zen4
Intel: haswell, skylake_avx512, sapphirerapids, icelake, cascadelake
(none) 2023.06 BWA/0.7.18-GCCcore-12.3.0
0.7.18 generic: aarch64, x86_64
Arm: a64fx, neoverse_n1, neoverse_v1, nvidia/grace
AMD: zen2, zen3, zen4
Intel: haswell, skylake_avx512, sapphirerapids, icelake, cascadelake
(none) 2023.06 BWA/0.7.18-GCCcore-13.2.0
0.7.19 generic: aarch64, x86_64
Arm: a64fx, neoverse_n1, neoverse_v1, nvidia/grace
AMD: zen2, zen3, zen4
Intel: haswell, skylake_avx512, sapphirerapids, icelake, cascadelake
(none) 2025.06 BWA/0.7.19-GCCcore-14.3.0