seq-genomics vs seq

seq-genomics

Coursera Bioinformatics / Stepik Genome Sequencing with seq-lang (by mationai)

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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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seq-genomics		seq
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1	Mentions	15
2	Stars	634
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.7
about 4 years ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
	Language	C++
-	License	Apache License 2.0

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seq-genomics

Posts with mentions or reviews of seq-genomics. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-15.

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

Used it for coding Coursera/Stepik's Bioinformatics course [1] when it was first announced 2 years ago.
Not claiming it as any sort of reference, but you can see how it [2] may be used to solve some basic genome sequencing.
[1] https://www.coursera.org/specializations/bioinformatics
[2] https://github.com/fuzzthink/seq-genomics

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.

Bioinformatics programming language
1 project | /r/u_waynerad | 18 Oct 2021
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
Seq – A programming language for computational genomics and bioinformatics
1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 15 Sep 2021

1 project | /r/hackernews | 15 Sep 2021

1 project | /r/BRC_users | 15 Sep 2021

1 project | /r/bioinformatics | 15 Sep 2021

1 project | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 15 Sep 2021

1 project | /r/programming | 15 Sep 2021
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3 projects | /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

What are some alternatives?

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

bioconda-recipes - Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.

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).

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

nimconf2021 - Slides for Nimconf21

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

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

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

bowtie2 - A fast and sensitive gapped read aligner

qore - Qore Programming Language

poly - A Go package for engineering organisms.