bowtie2
A fast and sensitive gapped read aligner (by BenLangmead)
megahit
Ultra-fast and memory-efficient (meta-)genome assembler (by voutcn)
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| bowtie2 | megahit | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | |
| 500 | 438 | |
| - | - | |
| 8.3 | 0.0 | |
| 14 days ago | 12 days ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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.
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 bowtie2 and megahit you can also consider the following projects:
STAR - RNA-seq aligner
bwa-mem2 - The next version of bwa-mem
seq - A high-performance, Pythonic language for bioinformatics
GenomicSQLite - Genomics Extension for SQLite
hap.py - Haplotype VCF comparison tools
bowtie - An ultrafast memory-efficient short read aligner
octopus - Bayesian haplotype-based mutation calling