BFAST facilitates the fast and accurate mapping of short reads to reference sequences, where mapping billions of short reads with variants is of utmost importance.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bfast/
Tracetuner is a tool for base and quality calling of trace files from DNA sequencing instruments. Originally developed by Paracel, this code base was released as open source in 2006 by Celera.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tracetuner/
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).
http://bowtie-bio.sourceforge.net/index.shtml
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19505943
The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools.
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Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA.Abstract
SUMMARY: The Sequence Alignment/Map (SAM) format is a generic alignment format for storing read alignments against reference sequences, supporting short and long reads (up to 128 Mbp) produced by different sequencing platforms. It is flexible in style, compact in size, efficient in random access and is the format in which alignments from the 1000 Genomes Project are released. SAMtools implements various utilities for post-processing alignments in the SAM format, such as indexing, variant caller and alignment viewer, and thus provides universal tools for processing read alignments. AVAILABILITY: http://samtools.sourceforge.net.
