bowtie VS megahit

Compare bowtie vs megahit and see what are their differences.

bowtie

An ultrafast memory-efficient short read aligner (by BenLangmead)

megahit

Ultra-fast and memory-efficient (meta-)genome assembler (by voutcn)
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bowtie megahit
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10.0 0.0
almost 2 years ago about 2 months ago
C++ C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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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.

megahit

Posts with mentions or reviews of megahit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning megahit yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bowtie and megahit you can also consider the following projects:

bowtie2 - A fast and sensitive gapped read aligner

hap.py - Haplotype VCF comparison tools

bwa - Burrow-Wheeler Aligner for short-read alignment (see minimap2 for long-read alignment)

seq - A high-performance, Pythonic language for bioinformatics

bwa-mem2 - The next version of bwa-mem

nanopolish - Signal-level algorithms for MinION data

GenomicSQLite - Genomics Extension for SQLite

octopus - Bayesian haplotype-based mutation calling