samtools VS MMseqs2

Compare samtools vs MMseqs2 and see what are their differences.

samtools

Tools (written in C using htslib) for manipulating next-generation sequencing data (by samtools)
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samtools MMseqs2
3 4
1,549 1,251
2.5% 3.8%
8.6 7.7
3 days ago 25 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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samtools

Posts with mentions or reviews of samtools. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-18.

MMseqs2

Posts with mentions or reviews of MMseqs2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing samtools and MMseqs2 you can also consider the following projects:

seqtk - Toolkit for processing sequences in FASTA/Q formats

kraken-biom - Create BIOM-format tables (http://biom-format.org) from Kraken output (http://ccb.jhu.edu/software/kraken/, https://github.com/DerrickWood/kraken).

RNAlien - RNAlien - unsupervised RNA family model construction

hh-suite - Remote protein homology detection suite.

libBigWig - A C library for handling bigWig files

GTDBTk - GTDB-Tk: a toolkit for assigning objective taxonomic classifications to bacterial and archaeal genomes.

libdna - ♥ Essential Functions for DNA Manipulation

SqueezeMeta - A complete pipeline for metagenomic analysis

htslib - C library for high-throughput sequencing data formats

bioinformatics-toolkit - A collection of bioinformatics algorithms