bowtie2 VS fastp

Compare bowtie2 vs fastp and see what are their differences.

bowtie2

A fast and sensitive gapped read aligner (by BenLangmead)

fastp

An ultra-fast all-in-one FASTQ preprocessor (QC/adapters/trimming/filtering/splitting/merging...) (by OpenGene)
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bowtie2 fastp
2 9
618 1,768
- 3.7%
7.6 4.7
6 days ago 21 days ago
C++ C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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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 2023-09-14.

fastp

Posts with mentions or reviews of fastp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bowtie2 and fastp you can also consider the following projects:

STAR - RNA-seq aligner

galaxy - Data intensive science for everyone.

bwa-mem2 - The next version of bwa-mem

readfq - A simple tool to calculate reads number and total base count in FASTQ file

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

glslSmartDeNoise - Fast glsl deNoise spatial filter, with circular gaussian kernel, full configurable

seq - A high-performance, Pythonic language for bioinformatics

nextclade - Viral genome alignment, mutation calling, clade assignment, quality checks and phylogenetic placement

IntaRNA - Efficient target prediction incorporating accessibility of interaction sites

readfq - Fast multi-line FASTA/Q reader in several programming languages

kraken2 - The second version of the Kraken taxonomic sequence classification system

seqtk - Toolkit for processing sequences in FASTA/Q formats