seq VS edlib

Compare seq vs edlib and see what are their differences.

seq

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

edlib

Lightweight, super fast C/C++ (& Python) library for sequence alignment using edit (Levenshtein) distance. (by Martinsos)
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Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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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.

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?

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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).

bwa-mem2 - The next version of bwa-mem

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

nanopolish - Signal-level algorithms for MinION data

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

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

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

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.

bowtie2 - A fast and sensitive gapped read aligner

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

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

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