Robert Aboukhalil @robert.bio · Sep 9 "The reference genome is essentially folded using the BWT, which allows the search for read alignments to take on a bow-tie shape in the index" Hmmm... @benlangmead.bsky.social
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Who am I to argue? Trivia: @stevensalzberg.bsky.social suggested the name based on it having "B" "W" & "T" in it. I thought "nah, I'll find a better name" and searched the Linux dictionary file for another "BWT" word. Best I could find was "browbeat". (Runner up: "bewitch"). So "bowtie" won.
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