bwa-mem2 VS edlib

Compare bwa-mem2 vs edlib and see what are their differences.

edlib

Lightweight, super fast C/C++ (& Python) library for sequence alignment using edit (Levenshtein) distance. (by Martinsos)
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bwa-mem2 edlib
2 2
676 484
1.8% -
2.6 1.1
4 months ago about 1 year ago
C++ C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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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.
  • Anyone use DRAGEN-GATK?
    1 project | /r/bioinformatics | 12 Oct 2022
    If you haven’t heard of it already you may want to check out https://github.com/bwa-mem2/bwa-mem2 which is a faster version of bwa-mem. I’ve been using it for a while now and found it to be quite stable, same results as the original and the speed improvement is nice.
  • Software Development Project
    2 projects | /r/bioinformatics | 28 Jun 2022
    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

edlib

Posts with mentions or reviews of edlib. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-03.
  • What's an efficient way to find multiple subsequences in several FASTQs?
    1 project | /r/bioinformatics | 8 Feb 2022
    I’ve got a similar situation. I was implementing the Smith-Waterman algorithm when I figured someone had to have already written a “fast” version of this. I found the edlib package (https://github.com/Martinsos/edlib) which does sequence alignment using Levenshtein distance. Essentially same DP algorithm as your traditional NW or SW only this is a C++ implementation with a Python wrapper. (I’m assuming you’re using Python, could be wrong though). The pertinent aspects of the output of this function contains the distance (dissimilarity) and the location (what index does the alignment start and end). This tool may go a ways to helping your pipeline. You could also look to metagenomic papers for inspiration as this is a problem (find a substring in a huge amount of data) that the community contends with all the time. Kmer based approach may also be useful if you want to attempt the alignment free path. Cheers.
  • ModuleNotFoundError after running `pip install -e .` locally
    2 projects | /r/learnpython | 3 Jan 2022
    I appear to get that error with the original source as well. https://github.com/Martinsos/edlib

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bwa-mem2 and edlib you can also consider the following projects:

minimap2 - A versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences

seq - A high-performance, Pythonic language for bioinformatics

bowtie2 - A fast and sensitive gapped read aligner

nanopolish - Signal-level algorithms for MinION data

minimap2 - A versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences

libnitrokey - Communicate with Nitrokey devices in a clean and easy manner

htslib - C library for high-throughput sequencing data formats

casadi - CasADi is a symbolic framework for numeric optimization implementing automatic differentiation in forward and reverse modes on sparse matrix-valued computational graphs. It supports self-contained C-code generation and interfaces state-of-the-art codes such as SUNDIALS, IPOPT etc. It can be used from C++, Python or Matlab/Octave.

vg - tools for working with genome variation graphs

frugally-deep - Header-only library for using Keras (TensorFlow) models in C++.

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

edlibtest - Private changes to https://github.com/Martinsos/edlib