BWA

What is BWA?

BWA, or Burrows-Wheeler Aligner, "is a software package for mapping low-divergent sequences against a large reference genome, such as the human genome" (BWA homepage).

How is BWA loaded?

The below can be used to view all of the installations of BWA on a particular system, where this example uses Coeus.

$ module avail |& grep -i "bwa"

Biosciences/bwa/0.7.12/gcc-7.2.0

How is BWA invoked?

To invoke BWA's primary binary, use the below. For more on using BWA, refer to here.

$ module load Biosciences/bwa/0.7.12/gcc-7.2.0

$ bwa