LICENSE.txt

Copyright (c) 2011 Francesco Strozzi - for Ruby Code and binding

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IMPORTANT NOTE: 
This package includes the BWA source code and pre-compiled shared libraries.
The full BWA package is distributed under GPLv3 as it uses source codes from BWT-SW which is covered by GPL. 
Sorting, hash table, BWT and IS libraries are distributed under the MIT license. 
Please check http://bio-bwa.sourceforge.net/ for further details.

Burrows-Wheeler Aligner REFERENCES:

Li H. and Durbin R. (2009) Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows-Wheeler Transform. Bioinformatics, 25:1754-60. [PMID: 19451168]
Li H. and Durbin R. (2010) Fast and accurate long-read alignment with Burrows-Wheeler Transform. Bioinformatics, Epub. [PMID: 20080505]