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 ## mm2-fast
 ### Introduction
 mm2-fast is an accelerated implementation of minimap2 on modern CPUs. mm2-fast accelerates all the three major modules of minimap2: (a) seeding, (b) chaining, and (c) pairwise alignment, achieving up to 1.8x speedup using AVX512 over minimap2.