vg
tools for working with genome variation graphs (by vgteam)
bowtie2
A fast and sensitive gapped read aligner (by BenLangmead)
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| vg | bowtie2 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2 | |
| 1,056 | 618 | |
| 1.3% | - | |
| 9.4 | 7.6 | |
| 12 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
vg
Posts with mentions or reviews of vg.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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VG v1.36.0 just released!
Just released! VG v1.36.0, available at https://github.com/vgteam/vg/releases/tag/v1.36.0 offers improvements vg clip, including an option for clipping out big deletion edges while skipping multiple specified alleles.
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VG v1.34.0 Release!
Just out! vg v1.34.0 code-named "Arguello" is available now: https://github.com/vgteam/vg/releases/tag/v1.34.0
bowtie2
Posts with mentions or reviews of bowtie2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-14.
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NHI Genome Studies: Mexico Govt Sept 12 Congressional hearing
2) Use bowtie2 to align reads against CHM13. This will let you separate human from nonhuman (important, as human sequences are a common contaminant in many nonhuman genomes).
- Computationally intensive steps in RNA-seq analysis
What are some alternatives?
When comparing vg and bowtie2 you can also consider the following projects:
QuickQanava - :link: C++17 network / graph visualization library - Qt6 / QML node editor.
STAR - RNA-seq aligner
euler - A distributed graph deep learning framework.
bwa-mem2 - The next version of bwa-mem
megahit - Ultra-fast and memory-efficient (meta-)genome assembler
seq - A high-performance, Pythonic language for bioinformatics
fastp - An ultra-fast all-in-one FASTQ preprocessor (QC/adapters/trimming/filtering/splitting/merging...)
IntaRNA - Efficient target prediction incorporating accessibility of interaction sites
kraken2 - The second version of the Kraken taxonomic sequence classification system
CHM13 - The complete sequence of a human genome