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 **Note: [minimap2][minimap2] has replaced BWA-MEM for __PacBio and Nanopore__ read
 alignment.** It retains all major BWA-MEM features, but is ~50 times as fast,
 more versatile, more accurate and produces better base-level alignment.
+A beta version of [BWA-MEM2][bwa-mem2] has been released for short-read mapping.
+BWA-MEM2 is about twice as fast as BWA-MEM and outputs near identical alignments.
 
 [minimap2]: https://github.com/lh3/minimap2
+[bwa-mem2]: https://github.com/bwa-mem2/bwa-mem2
 
 ## Getting started