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type: software
license: MIT
title: 'Rbwa: R wrapper for BWA-backtrack and BWA-MEM aligners'
version: 1.17.0
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.Rbwa
abstract: Provides an R wrapper for BWA alignment algorithms. Both BWA-backtrack and
  BWA-MEM are available. Convenience function to build a BWA index from a reference
  genome is also provided. Currently not supported for Windows machines.
authors:
- family-names: Fortin
  given-names: Jean-Philippe
  email: fortin946@gmail.com
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: A comprehensive Bioconductor ecosystem for the design of CRISPR guide RNAs
    across nucleases and technologies
  authors:
  - family-names: Hoberecht
    given-names: Luke
  - family-names: Perampalam
    given-names: Pirunthan
  - family-names: Lun
    given-names: Aaron
  - family-names: Fortin
    given-names: Jean-Philippe
    email: fortin946@gmail.com
  journal: Nature Communications
  volume: '13'
  issue: '1'
  year: '2022'
  start: '6568'
repository: https://bioc.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/crisprVerse/Rbwa
commit: 865761423b25688f10e4f17af076e398b3c2bbc3
url: https://github.com/Jfortin1/Rbwa
date-released: '2026-04-02'
contact:
- family-names: Fortin
  given-names: Jean-Philippe
  email: fortin946@gmail.com
references:
- type: article
  title: Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows-Wheeler transform
  authors:
  - family-names: Li
    given-names: Heng
  - family-names: Durbin
    given-names: Richard
  journal: Bioinformatics
  volume: '25'
  issue: '14'
  year: '2009'
  start: 1754-1760