The BWA manual refers to "edit distance". What does this mean?
Eric
Eric
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It's the amount of difference between two sequences; your read, and your reference. -
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Below is from BWA.aln documentation:
"The maximum edit distance. This specifies a threshold of the maximum number of deletions, insertions, and substitutions needed to transform the reference sequence into the read sequence."Comment
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