bowtie VS seq

Compare bowtie vs seq and see what are their differences.

bowtie

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

seq

A high-performance, Pythonic language for bioinformatics (by seq-lang)
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bowtie seq
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252 634
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10.0 0.7
almost 2 years ago over 1 year ago
C++ C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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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.

seq

Posts with mentions or reviews of seq. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-20.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

Nim - Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).

megahit - Ultra-fast and memory-efficient (meta-)genome assembler

adam - ADAM is a genomics analysis platform with specialized file formats built using Apache Avro, Apache Spark, and Apache Parquet. Apache 2 licensed.

nanopolish - Signal-level algorithms for MinION data

edlib - Lightweight, super fast C/C++ (& Python) library for sequence alignment using edit (Levenshtein) distance.

wyng-backup - Fast Time Machine-like backups for logical volumes & disk images

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

bowtie2 - A fast and sensitive gapped read aligner

seq-genomics - Coursera Bioinformatics / Stepik Genome Sequencing with seq-lang

qore - Qore Programming Language

poly - A Go package for engineering organisms.