Table 3.

Comparison of BWASW-PMR with its related work counterparts.

	BWASW-PMR	Bwasw-Cloud [34]	MapReduce-BLAST [33]	CloudAligner [13]	BWA-SW [10]
Long sequence alignment support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Alignment algorithm adopted	BWA-SW	BWA-SW	Blast	Seed-and-extend algorithm	BWA-SW
SW for accurate alignment	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Cloud MapReduce platform execution support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
MapReduce platform considered	Custom	Hadoop	Hadoop	Hadoop	No
SW optimization	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
Parallelization of MapReduce phases	Yes	No	No	No	No
Accuracy	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes