diamond VS minimap2

Compare diamond vs minimap2 and see what are their differences.

diamond

Accelerated BLAST compatible local sequence aligner. (by bbuchfink)

minimap2

A versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences (by lh3)
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3 5
969 1,698
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6.3 7.6
3 months ago 6 days ago
C++ C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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diamond

Posts with mentions or reviews of diamond. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-12.

minimap2

Posts with mentions or reviews of minimap2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-06.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing diamond and minimap2 you can also consider the following projects:

Biopython - Official git repository for Biopython (originally converted from CVS)

bwa-mem2 - The next version of bwa-mem

seqan3 - The modern C++ library for sequence analysis. Contains version 3 of the library and API docs.

seqtk - Toolkit for processing sequences in FASTA/Q formats

seqstats - Quick summary statistics on fasta/fastq(.gz) files

slivar - genetic variant expressions, annotation, and filtering for great good.

MethylDackel - A (mostly) universal methylation extractor for BS-seq experiments.

bwa-mem2 - The next version of bwa-mem

Klib - A standalone and lightweight C library

Bitgrid - Bitgrid - a new model of computation

biowasm - WebAssembly modules for genomics

miniprot - Align proteins to genomes with splicing and frameshift