Alignment in ART simulator

Question

[Ritika Ratnu]

So ART mimics the error profiles of existing NGS platforms to generate the fastq files. But what alignment technique does it use to generate the .sam files?

Answer 1

[GenoMax]

According to ART paper, it uses an aligner called ACANA from the same authors. That publication is here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bti772