Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on January 28, 2008
Bioinformatics 2008 24(5):713-714; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn025
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SOAP: short oligonucleotide alignment program
1Beijing Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China and 2Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, DK-5230, Denmark
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Summary: We have developed a program SOAP for efficient gapped and ungapped alignment of short oligonucleotides onto reference sequences. The program is designed to handle the huge amounts of short reads generated by parallel sequencing using the new generation Illumina-Solexa sequencing technology. SOAP is compatible with numerous applications, including single-read or pair-end resequencing, small RNA discovery and mRNA tag sequence mapping. SOAP is a command-driven program, which supports multi-threaded parallel computing, and has a batch module for multiple query sets.
Availability: http://soap.genomics.org.cn
Contact: soap{at}genomics.org.cn
Associate Editor: Keith Crandall
Received on November 10, 2007; revised on December 20, 2007; accepted on January 14, 2008