bowtiebuild
(To be removed) Generate index using Burrows-Wheeler transform
bowtiebuild
will be removed in a future release. Use bowtie2
and bowtie2build
instead.
Description
bowtiebuild(
builds an index using the reference sequence(s) in input
,indexBaseName
)input
, and
saves it to the index file indexBaseName
.
Note
bowtiebuild
runs on Mac and UNIX® platforms only.
bowtiebuild(
specifies additional options.input
,indexBaseName
,'BowtieBuildOptions',options
)
Examples
Input Arguments
Tips
More information on the Bowtie algorithm (Version 0.12.7) can be found at http://bowtie-bio.sourceforge.net/index.shtml.
Some prebuilt index files for model organisms can be downloaded directly from the Bowtie repository.