Kallisto v HiSat

In attempting to get quick comparison of alignment across genome, the question arises what is the difference (and accuracy) of kallisto (psuedo-align) and hisat. Spoiler - I was quite surprised with hisat w and w/o gtf. This is A pulcra RNA-seq data….

TLDR

Genome kallisto HiSat HiSat no splice Col5 Col6
Amil_v2.1 “p_pseudoaligned”: 84.9, “p_unique”: 82.2 76.02% overall alignment rate 76.00% overall alignment rate    
Adig_1.1 “p_pseudoaligned”: 72.8,”p_unique”: 69.8 57.46% overall alignment rate 57.40% overall alignment rate    
Ahyacinthus.chrsV1 “p_pseudoaligned”: 82.1,”p_unique”: 80.4   68.10% overall alignment rate    
Written on March 3, 2023