Official home of BBMap and BBTools - fast, multithreaded bioinformatics tools for DNA/RNA analysis. Created and maintained by Brian Bushnell.

BBTools is a suite of fast, multithreaded bioinformatics tools designed for analysis of DNA and RNA sequence data. BBTools can handle common sequencing and bioinformatics file formats …

BBMap is a splice-aware global aligner for DNA and RNA sequencing reads. It can align reads from all major platforms – Illumina, 454, Sanger, Ion Torrent, Pac Bio, and Nanopore.

Jul 15, 2022 · This package includes BBMap, a short read aligner, as well as various other bioinformatic tools. It is written in pure Java, can run on any platform, and has no …

Nov 24, 2025 · Install bbmap with Anaconda.org. BBMap is a short read aligner, as well as various other bioinformatic tools.

BBMap is shown to be a fast and accurate aligner, capable of correctly handling an overall wider variety of references, reads, and mutations than others. It has particularly outstanding …

Here, we will present BBMap [1], a fast splice-aware aligner for short and long reads. We will demonstrate that BBMap has superior speed, sensitivity, and specificity to alternative high …