bwa VS sra-tools

Compare bwa vs sra-tools and see what are their differences.

bwa

Burrow-Wheeler Aligner for short-read alignment (see minimap2 for long-read alignment) (by lh3)
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bwa sra-tools
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1,453 1,049
- 1.0%
2.7 9.2
18 days ago 10 days ago
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bwa

Posts with mentions or reviews of bwa. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-25.

sra-tools

Posts with mentions or reviews of sra-tools. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-10.
  • Bulk RNA seq analysis.
    1 project | /r/bioinformatics | 11 Sep 2023
    Note that conda sra-tools does not support ARM (M chips use customized ARM architecture ) yet and the official repo also does not provide pre-compiled version for arm. You should be able to compile it from the source but YMMV. Similarly, STAR does not officially support ARM either but compilation on your own always worths a try.
  • fasterq-dump target disk-limit
    1 project | /r/bioinformatics | 12 Jan 2023
    According to this, the disk space required should be about 17 times the size of the accession (for both output files and tmp files). As can be seen below, I have >500GB of disk space. Yet, I receive this output:
  • Scientists Are Finding Fungi in Cancerous Tumors
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Oct 2022
    Start with downloading SRA toolkit: https://github.com/ncbi/sra-tools/wiki/02.-Installing-SRA-To...

    Find some data of interest: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra?term=(%22Homo%20sapiens%22[... (This searches SRA for human genome sequences on illumina with fastq files available)

    Run fasterq-dump on the SRR (listed as "Runs" in the SRA page of your choice):

  • Systematic way to collect GEO datasets
    2 projects | /r/bioinformatics | 5 Oct 2022
    If you are okay with looking at already processed data, chdck out https://dee2.io/. Otherwise there is https://github.com/ncbi/sra-tools for getting fastq files (a cli tool) or https://github.com/saketkc/pysradb (python)
  • How to extract gene sequences from SRA
    1 project | /r/bioinformatics | 9 Sep 2022
    Fasterq-dump also doesnt play nice sometimes. By that I mean it causes problems like this https://github.com/ncbi/sra-tools/issues/383
  • How do I enable prefetch? Keep getting "-bash: defaults: command not found"
    2 projects | /r/learnprogramming | 8 Jun 2022
    In this case, you're missing software. Specifically, you're missing sra-tools. Fortunately, this is provided via Homebrew as sratoolkit. After installing that formula, you should be able to use the prefetch command.
  • SRAToolKit for pipeline
    1 project | /r/bioinformatics | 23 Jun 2021
    Yeah, unfortunately this required key entry is by design for some reason (see more here https://github.com/ncbi/sra-tools/issues/291).
  • SRA data from NCBI - moved?
    1 project | /r/bioinformatics | 4 Jun 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bwa and sra-tools you can also consider the following projects:

foldseek - Foldseek enables fast and sensitive comparisons of large structure sets.

biostar-central - Biostar Q&A

slivar - genetic variant expressions, annotation, and filtering for great good.

pysradb - Package for fetching metadata and downloading data from SRA/ENA/GEO

MethylDackel - A (mostly) universal methylation extractor for BS-seq experiments.

HomeBrew - đŸș The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

bowtie - An ultrafast memory-efficient short read aligner

spades - SPAdes Genome Assembler

libBigWig - A C library for handling bigWig files

javascript-obfuscator - A powerful obfuscator for JavaScript and Node.js