bowtie2
A fast and sensitive gapped read aligner (by BenLangmead)
bwa-mem2
The next version of bwa-mem (by bwa-mem2)
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| bowtie2 | bwa-mem2 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 500 | 588 | |
| - | 1.2% | |
| 8.3 | 0.0 | |
| 14 days ago | 22 days ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
bwa-mem2
Posts with mentions or reviews of bwa-mem2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-28.
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Software Development Project
I’ve recently switched to bwa mem2 and the speed increase is nice for what is basically a drop in replacement (after a bit of validation to make sure that was true). https://github.com/bwa-mem2/bwa-mem2
What are some alternatives?
When comparing bowtie2 and bwa-mem2 you can also consider the following projects:
STAR - RNA-seq aligner
minimap2 - A versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences
minimap2 - A versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences
seq - A high-performance, Pythonic language for bioinformatics
megahit - Ultra-fast and memory-efficient (meta-)genome assembler
GenomicSQLite - Genomics Extension for SQLite
Klib - A standalone and lightweight C library
seqstats - Quick summary statistics on fasta/fastq(.gz) files