Omixon release their fast and sensitive mapping and alignment tool for letter space data.

The range of Omixon products has been expanded with the addition of a command line Letter Space Toolkit, which has been in beta testing since August 2011 and is now ready for its first commercial release. This toolkit contains a mapping and alignment tool called ORM. It is both very fast and very precise has a number of unique features including mapping of long indels, handling of tandem repeats, correction of G/C bias, correction of homopolymer errors and more.

ORM will align data from the Illumina, Ion Torrent and Roche 454 platforms.