Genbank vs samtools

Genbank

Genbank format tools and parser (by eggzilla)

Specific Industries Bioinformatics

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samtools

Tools (written in C using htslib) for manipulating next-generation sequencing data (by samtools)

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Genbank		samtools
	Project
-	Mentions	3
10	Stars	1,543
-	Growth	2.1%
0.0	Activity	8.4
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
Haskell	Language	C
LicenseRef-GPL	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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Genbank

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

samtools

Posts with mentions or reviews of samtools. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-18.

BWA MEM with merged paired-end reads and unmerged in the same run.
1 project | /r/bioinformatics | 13 Jun 2023

I don’t know about your first question, but for your second, use “bwa mem -p …” for smart pairing of an interleaved FASTQ/A with both paired end reads and singletons. BWA will recognize whether adjacent reads are paired if they have the same prefix (see here)
Show a Tanuki with Samtools!
2 projects | dev.to | 18 Oct 2022

In this post, I'm going to add the command tanuki to Samtools to display a ASCII art(AA) tanuki.
How do I know if I'm gonna get my module?
1 project | /r/nus | 7 Jan 2022

Quite a number of bioinformatics related tool that were written in C/C++, eg. (https://github.com/samtools/samtools). But there are also a lot of modern packages for Python / R now

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Genbank and samtools you can also consider the following projects:

uniprot-kb - UniProt-KB format parser

seqtk - Toolkit for processing sequences in FASTA/Q formats

samtools - [Moved to: https://github.com/ingolia/SamTools]

MMseqs2 - MMseqs2: ultra fast and sensitive search and clustering suite

bioinformatics-toolkit - A collection of bioinformatics algorithms

RNAlien - RNAlien - unsupervised RNA family model construction

ViennaRNAParser

libdna - ♥ Essential Functions for DNA Manipulation

Taxonomy - Haskell cabal Taxonomy libary contains tools, parsers, datastructures and visualisation for the NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) Taxonomy datasources.

libBigWig - A C library for handling bigWig files

phybin - Binning (Newick) Phylogenetic Trees by Topology

htslib - C library for high-throughput sequencing data formats