Map to Reference in Geneious Prime

Course Content

Map NGS Reads to a Reference

Select a reference sequence, choose a mapping algorithm, set the sensitivity and map to reference.
LENGTH 3 minutes

Explore Contig Documents

View the consensus sequence and quickly identify high or low coverage regions using the coverage graph.
LENGTH 3 minutes

Recommended Resources

Plugin - BBDuk Trimmer

Download the plugin for quality trimming and filtering your sequences.

Which map to reference assembly algorithm is best for my data?

Advantages and disadvantages of different map to reference algorithms.

Manual for Map to Reference

A guide to using the map to reference tools in Geneious.

What function should I use?

The difference between Pairwise/Multiple alignment, de novo Assembly, and Map to Reference.

More Geneious Academy

Map paired reads to the E. coli yghJ CDS, review coverage, then call and filter SNPs on the assembly.
Assemble short-read NGS data from scratch in Geneious Prime, including read normalization and circular contig assembly.
Perform multiple alignments and assess levels of homology among sequences before constructing a phylogeny.
Align your chromatograms to a reference sequence, find variants and verify sequences.
Get started with Geneious today