Alternatives to Mummer3 for linux?

Question

[marongiu.luigi]

I am trying to use MUMMER3 for aligning bacterial genomes. Are there alternatives to this (but similarly powerful) for Linux/Ubuntu?

Thank you

[GenoMax]

Lastz: https://github.com/lastz/lastz

Originally designed to handle sequences the size of human chromosomes and from different species

Answer 1

[Dave Carlson]

There are a whole host of potential alternatives, depending on your use case. Here is a relatively recent paper reviewing some of them:

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-022-02735-6