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fixing human ref genome random access memory

Can I fix the human reference genome file on physical random access memory so that the bwa program can process it from this fixed file? Can a secondary bwa execution also align using this file without ram getting a new file? my goal is to ensure the amount of time and low ram usage during writing on random acces memory

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updated by Devon Ryan Devon Ryan • written by SurdanBurasi • SurdanBurasi

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The only aligner I'm aware of that puts its index into shared memory like that is STAR, so no there is not currently a way to do this with BWA. Note that BWA is quite memory efficient, so unless you have a node with 100+ threads available but only say 20GB RAM you shouldn't have issues with multiple BWA processes swamping your memory.

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written by Devon Ryan Devon Ryan

The bowtie aligners and hisat2 do offer sm and are very memory-efficient.

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That's a happy update :)

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