Hi all,

Current databases are becoming increasingly large. Recently I've found myself indexing a large FASTA file and taking over 200CPU hours (single thread).

Searching for multithreaded support for bwa index I've landed on a 5 year old mailing-list thread that mentions the existence of some sort of patch. I couldn't find any reference to this patch though.

Regardless, is there any ongoing or planned work to make bwa index parallelizable in some form?