spades VS bwa

Compare spades vs bwa 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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spades bwa
4 3
660 1,453
2.6% -
9.3 2.7
11 days ago 13 days ago
C++ C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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spades

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

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing spades and bwa you can also consider the following projects:

prokka - :zap: :aquarius: Rapid prokaryotic genome annotation

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

mag - Assembly and binning of metagenomes

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

seqkit - A cross-platform and ultrafast toolkit for FASTA/Q file manipulation

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

trinityrnaseq - Trinity RNA-Seq de novo transcriptome assembly

sra-tools - SRA Tools

sage - Proteomics search & quantification so fast that it feels like magic

bowtie - An ultrafast memory-efficient short read aligner

rnaseq - RNA sequencing analysis pipeline using STAR, RSEM, HISAT2 or Salmon with gene/isoform counts and extensive quality control.

libBigWig - A C library for handling bigWig files