Table 4. Comparison of various features of DistMap and other tools for distributed mapping.
| Features | Crossbow v 1.2.0 | SEAL v 0.1.0 | Eoulsan v 1.1.6 | FX v 1.0.4 | DistMap v 1.0 | Galaxy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAM output | no | no | no | no | yes | yes |
| BAM output | no | no | no | no | yes | yes |
| Pair-end Mapping | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Single-end Mapping | yes | no | no | no | yes | yes |
| Bisulfite Mapping | no | no | no | no | yes | no |
| Installation required | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes |
| Dependency | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes |
| Operating system | All Unix | Only Linux | Only Linux | All OS | All Unix | All OS |
| Mappers (complied) | bowtie | BWA | BWA, bowtie, SOAP, GSNAP | GSNAP | BWA, bowtie, Bowtie2, GSNAP, SOAP, STAR, TopHat, TopHat2, Bismark, BSMAP | bowtie, BWA |
| Mapper version dependency | no | yes | yes | yes | no | yes |
| Reference sequence version dependency | no | no | no | no | no | yes |
| Custom queue/pool support | no | no | no | no | yes | no |
| Fair scheduler and Capacity scheduler | no | no | no | no | yes | no |