bowtie2
A fast and sensitive gapped read aligner (by BenLangmead)
STAR
RNA-seq aligner (by alexdobin)
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| bowtie2 | STAR | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | |
| 500 | 1,422 | |
| - | - | |
| 8.3 | 5.7 | |
| 14 days ago | 28 days ago | |
| C++ | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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.
bowtie2
Posts with mentions or reviews of bowtie2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-25.
STAR
Posts with mentions or reviews of STAR.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-25.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing bowtie2 and STAR you can also consider the following projects:
bwa-mem2 - The next version of bwa-mem
seq - A high-performance, Pythonic language for bioinformatics
megahit - Ultra-fast and memory-efficient (meta-)genome assembler