Sequence alignment with bowtie2

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Aligning example reads

Local alignment

To use local alignment to align some longer reads included with Bowtie 2, stay in the same directory and run:

bowtie2 --local -x $REF -U longreads.fq -S eg3.sam

This aligns the long reads to the reference genome using local alignment, with results written to the file eg3.sam.