Burrows Wheeler Transform in Animation

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Burrows Wheeler Transform is an important component of alignment algorithms like Bowtie, BWA, and assembly algorithm such as String Graph Assembler.

Few months back, we explained how Burrows Wheeler Transform works through an example. This time we decided to present the same information as an animation. Please check the following links. The word in red box represents Burrows Wheeler transform of the original text.

Link for HOMOLOG.US$ animation

Link for TATATATATA$ animation

The second animation was described in text form in this earlier commentary.

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