BWA is a software package for mapping low-divergent sequences against a large reference genome, such as the human genome.

• Latest version: 0.7.17
• Added: April, 2013
• Updated: June, 2020
• Link: https://github.com/lh3/bwa

See versions of bwa which are available:

$ module avail bwa

Load one version into your environment and run it:

$ module load bwa/0.7.17

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://github.com/lh3/bwa/releases/download/v0.7.17/bwa-0.7.17.tar.bz2
$ tar xf bwa-0.7.17.tar.bz2 
$ cd bwa-0.7.17
$ make
$ sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/bwa/0.7.17/{bin,share/man/man1}
$ sudo cp bwa *.pl /export/apps/bwa/0.7.17/bin