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4. [Why can one read in a pair has high mapping quality but the other has zero?](#pe0)
5. [How can a BWA-backtrack alignment stands out of the end of a chromosome?](#endref)
6. [Does BWA work with ALT contigs in the GRCh38 release?](#altctg)
7. [Can I just run BWA-MEM against GRCh38+ALT without post-processing?](#postalt)

####<a name="type"></a>1. What types of data does BWA work with?

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####<a name="altctg"></a>6. Does BWA work with ALT contigs in the GRCh38 release?

Yes, since 0.7.11. Please see [README-alt.md][18] for details.
Yes, since 0.7.11, BWA-MEM officially supports mapping to GRCh38+ALT.
BWA-backtrack and BWA-SW don't properly support ALT mapping as of now. Please
see [README-alt.md][18] for details. Briefly, it is recommended to use
[bwakit][17], the binary release of BWA, for generating the reference genome
and for mapping.

####<a name="postalt"></a>7. Can I just run BWA-MEM against GRCh38+ALT without post-processing?

If you are not interested in hits to ALT contigs, it is okay to run BWA-MEM
without post-processing. The alignments produced this way are very close to
alignments against GRCh38 without ALT contigs. Nonetheless, applying
post-processing helps to reduce false mappings caused by reads from the
diverged part of ALT contigs and also enables HLA typing. It is recommended to
run the post-processing script.



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