megahit vs seq

megahit

Ultra-fast and memory-efficient (meta-)genome assembler (by voutcn)

#Bioinformatics #metagenomics #succinct #Data structures #Genomics #genome-assembly

Source Code

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

seq

A high-performance, Pythonic language for bioinformatics (by seq-lang)

#Bioinformatics #computational-biology #Genomics #programming-language #Domain-specific language #Compiler #Python

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megahit		seq
	Project
1	Mentions	15
448	Stars	634
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.7
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	4 months ago
C++	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	Apache License 2.0

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megahit

Posts with mentions or reviews of megahit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

seq

Posts with mentions or reviews of seq. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-20.

A Python-based programming language for high-performance computational genomics
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Sep 2021

> Seq is a Python-compatible language, and the vast majority of Python programs should work without any modifications
https://github.com/seq-lang/seq

5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Sep 2021

The programming language itself and all documentation can be found at https://seq-lang.org/ .

5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Sep 2021
Hacker News top posts: Sep 15, 2021
3 projects | reddit.com/r/hackerdigest | 15 Sep 2021

Seq: A programming language for high-performance computational genomics\ (17 comments)
Seq: A programming language for high-performance computational genomics
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Sep 2021

They support both, and will deprecate Python 2 style soon.
https://github.com/seq-lang/seq/issues/223

9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Sep 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing megahit and seq you can also consider the following projects:

Nim - Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).

wyng-backup - Fast Time Machine-like backups for logical volumes & disk images

edlib - Lightweight, super fast C/C++ (& Python) library for sequence alignment using edit (Levenshtein) distance.

bowtie2 - A fast and sensitive gapped read aligner

TensorComprehensions - A domain specific language to express machine learning workloads.

bioconda-recipes - Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.

Biopython - Official git repository for Biopython (originally converted from CVS)

adam - ADAM is a genomics analysis platform with specialized file formats built using Apache Avro, Apache Spark, and Apache Parquet. Apache 2 licensed.

qore - Qore Programming Language

seq-genomics - Coursera Bioinformatics / Stepik Genome Sequencing with seq-lang

GenomicSQLite - Genomics Extension for SQLite

seq vs TensorComprehensions

seq vs bioconda-recipes

seq vs Biopython

seq vs adam

megahit vs bowtie2