spades VS seqkit

Compare spades vs seqkit and see what are their differences.

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spades seqkit
4 3
660 1,202
2.6% -
9.3 8.5
11 days ago 21 days ago
C++ Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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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.

seqkit

Posts with mentions or reviews of seqkit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-11.
  • A look at the Mojo language for bioinformatics
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Feb 2024
    I've been thinking to learn Rust for these use cases, but always get frustrated with the complexity.

    I find Go is a great middle-ground though! And now there starts to be a few more bio-related tools and toolkits out there, including:

    - https://github.com/vertgenlab/gonomics

    - https://github.com/biogo/biogo

    - https://github.com/shenwei356/bio

    ... except from there being some really popular bio tools written in Go, like:

    - https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit

  • Help with understanding awk code
    2 projects | /r/bash | 19 May 2023
    You could also check out tools specialized for FASTA processing like https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit and https://github.com/lh3/seqtk
  • What are some good examples of well-engineered bioinformatics pipelines?
    8 projects | /r/bioinformatics | 5 Apr 2023
    Seqkit - thoroughly maintained with extensive tutorials and benchmarking info - https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit

What are some alternatives?

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

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

seqtk - Toolkit for processing sequences in FASTA/Q formats

mag - Assembly and binning of metagenomes

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

bwa - Burrow-Wheeler Aligner for short-read alignment (see minimap2 for long-read alignment)

rush - A cross-platform command-line tool for executing jobs in parallel

trinityrnaseq - Trinity RNA-Seq de novo transcriptome assembly

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

juicer - A One-Click System for Analyzing Loop-Resolution Hi-C Experiments

fasql - DuckDB Extension for reading and writing FASTA and FASTQ Files