A versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences.

• Latest version: 2.28
• Added: November, 2018
• Updated: March, 2025
• Link: https://lh3.github.io/minimap2/

See versions that are available:

$ module avail minimap2

Load one version into your environment and run it:

$ module load minimap2/2.28
$ minimap2

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://github.com/lh3/minimap2/releases/download/v2.28/minimap2-2.28.tar.bz2
$ tar xf minimap2-2.28.tar.bz2 
$ cd minimap2-2.28
$ make
$ sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/minimap2/2.28/{bin,include,lib}
$ sudo cp minimap2 /export/apps/minimap2/2.28/bin
$ sudo cp *.h /export/apps/minimap2/2.28/include
$ sudo cp libminimap2.a /export/apps/minimap2/2.28/lib
$ sudo cp LICENSE.txt README.md FAQ.md code_of_conduct.md NEWS.md /export/apps/minimap2/2.28

Note: I compiled this instead of using the pre-compiled binaries because I wanted to include the headers and static library for use by other programs.