bowtie
An ultrafast memory-efficient short read aligner (by BenLangmead)
bwa
Burrow-Wheeler Aligner for short-read alignment (see minimap2 for long-read alignment) (by lh3)
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| bowtie | bwa | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | |
| 252 | 1,443 | |
| - | - | |
| 10.0 | 0.0 | |
| almost 2 years ago | 11 days ago | |
| C++ | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
bowtie
Posts with mentions or reviews of bowtie.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-24.
bwa
Posts with mentions or reviews of bwa.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-25.
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my friend showed me his code, thees are all functions
Check out these sweet macros (from the same repo): https://github.com/lh3/bwa/blob/139f68fc4c3747813783a488aef2adc86626b01b/kbtree.h
- Scientists Are Finding Fungi in Cancerous Tumors
- Burrows–Wheeler Transform
What are some alternatives?
When comparing bowtie and bwa you can also consider the following projects:
megahit - Ultra-fast and memory-efficient (meta-)genome assembler
foldseek - Foldseek enables fast and sensitive comparisons of large structure sets.
nanopolish - Signal-level algorithms for MinION data
slivar - genetic variant expressions, annotation, and filtering for great good.
MethylDackel - A (mostly) universal methylation extractor for BS-seq experiments.
sra-tools - SRA Tools
spades - SPAdes Genome Assembler
libBigWig - A C library for handling bigWig files
javascript-obfuscator - A powerful obfuscator for JavaScript and Node.js
biostar-central - Biostar Q&A