Command-line tool

minimap2

brew/minimap2

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Versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install minimap2

Linux

brew install minimap2

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