Table 1 Tools for xenograft sorting and read filtering with key properties

XenofilteR

[2]

Aligned BAM

Filter

R

Xenosplit

[3]

Aligned BAM

Filter, count

Python

Bamcmp

[4]

Aligned BAM

Partial sort

C++

Disambiguate

[5]

Aligned BAM

Partial sort

Python or C++

BBsplit

[6]

Raw FASTQ

Partial sort

Java

Xenome

[7]

Raw FASTQ

Count, sort

C++

Xengsort

(This)

Raw FASTQ

Count, sort

Python + numba