BWA-MEM2(1)

💅 NAME 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the BWA-MEM2(1) manual page 💖 — this is literally the one-stop doc for bwa-mem2, which is Sequence alignment using Burrows-Wheeler Transform. that's the whole vibe of the NAME section, no notes, slay ✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the entire energy, in one line:

bwa-mem2 <command> <arguments>

like. that's it. command first, arguments after. iconic behavior honestly 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so when you run this thing, it goes and launches an executable — and it is very chatty about it, because of course it is 💅. here's the actual output it prints, verbatim, no cap:

Looking to launch executable
"/build/bwa-mem2-VE1xDF/bwa-mem2-2.3+ds/./bwa-mem2.avx2", simd = .avx2
Launching executable
"/build/bwa-mem2-VE1xDF/bwa-mem2-2.3+ds/./bwa-mem2.avx2"

first it tells you which executable it's looking to launch (with the simd value, = .avx2), and then it tells you it's launching it. yes, it says the same path twice. she's dramatic, she's thorough, we respect her 🙈🔥

🌸 Commands: 🌸

here's the lineup of commands you can pass, bestie — the whole roster, main character energy each and every one 👑

• index — create index ✨
• mem — alignment 🫶
• version — print version number ⭐

ngl that <command> in the SYNOPSIS? these three right here. that's the group chat 💜

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and that's the whole page, fr fr. no gatekeeping, no missing flags, we kept every single detail because that's the rule and we don't break rules 🎀

sign-off time: this was the bwa-mem2 page, version 2.3+ds, brought to you way back in February 2026 💖 and yes, the manual page is named BWA-MEM2(1) — remember it, cite it, love it 💅✨🦋