Versatile sequence alignment program for mapping long reads (PacBio/Oxford Nanopore), splice-aware RNA-seq alignment, and assembly-to-assembly alignment.
Use with AI
Install the MCP server or CLI to instantly fetch Minimap2 documentation:
Install command
claude mcp add biocontext7 -- npx @biocontext7/mcpOr share this page: biocontext7.com/tools/minimap2
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