Posts Tagged ‘loose’

bowtie2: Relaxed Parameters for Generous Alignments to Metagenomes

   Sam Nicholls    No Comments yet    Tools

Even `bowtie2`’s `–very-sensitive-local` option can be a little grumpy. Here’s how I make `bowtie2` a little more relaxed for alignment of more dissimilar sequences, particularly for my work on metagenomes.