SeqKit v2.6.1

Changelog

• SeqKit v2.6.1 - 2023-11-18
  • seqkit:
    • fix panic of nil pointer introduced in v2.6.0, which happens when handling multiple input files and some of them have file sizes of zero.
  • seqkit seq:
    • fix panic (close of closed channel) when using -v to checking sequences.

SeqKit v2.6.0

Changes

• SeqKit v2.6.0 - 2023-11-09
  • seqkit:
    • add the shortcut -X for the flag --infile-list.
  • seqkit common:
    • add a new flag -e/--check-embedded-seqs for detecting embedded sequences.
    • for matching by sequences: reduced the memory occupation and corrected numbers in the log. #416
  • seqkit stat:
    • add a new column AvgQual for average quality score. #411
  • seqkit split2:
    • fix the panic for invalid input.
  • seqkit subseq:
    • add a new flag -R/--region-coord for appending coordinates to sequence ID for -r/--region. #413
  • seqkit locate:
    • add a new flag -s/--max-len-to-show to show at most X characters for the search pattern or matched sequences.
  • seqkit seq:
    • change the nucleotide color theme. #412

SeqKit v2.5.1

Changes

• SeqKit v2.5.1 - 2023-08-09
  • seqkit stats:
    • fix a concurrency bug (file name error) introduced in v2.5.0. #405
  • seqkit subseq:
    • sequence/chromosome IDs are case-sensitive now. #400

SeqKit v2.5.0

Changes

• SeqKit v2.5.0 - 2023-07-16
  • new command seqkit merge-slides: merge sliding windows generated from seqkit sliding. #390
  • seqkit stats:
    • added a new flag -N/--N for appending other N50-like stats as new columns. #393
    • added a progress bar for > 1 input files.
    • write the result of each file immediately (no output buffer) when using -T/--tabular.
  • seqkit translate:
    • add options -s/--out-subseqs and -m/--min-len to write ORFs longer than x amino acids as individual records. #389
  • seqkit sum:
    • do not remove possible '*' by default and delete confusing warnings. Thanks to @photocyte. #399
    • added a progress bar for > 1 input files.
  • seqkit pair:
    • remove the restriction of requiring FASTQ format, i.e., FASTA files are also supported.
  • seqkit seq:
    • update help messages. #387
  • seqkit fxtab:
    • faster alphabet computation (-a/--alphabet) with a new data structure. Thanks to @elliotwutingfeng #388
  • seqkit subseq:
    • accept reverse coordinates in BED/GTF. #392

SeqKit v2.4.0

Changes

• SeqKit v2.4.0 - 2023-03-17
  • seqkit:
    • support bzip2 format. #361
    • support setting compression level for gzip, zstd, and bzip2 format via --compress-level. #320
    • the global flag --infile-list accepts stdin (-) now.
    • wrap the help message of flags.
  • seqkit locate:
    • do not remove embeded regions when searching with regular expressions. #368
  • seqkit amplicon:
    • fix BED coordinates for amplicons found in the minus strand. #367
  • seqkit split:
    • fix forgetting to add extension for --two-pass. #332
  • seqkit stats:
    • fix compute Q1 and Q3 of sequence length for one record. #353
  • seqkit grep:
    • fix count number (-C) for matching with mismatch (-m > 0). #370
  • seqkit replace:
    • add some flags to match partly records to edit; these flags are transplanted from seqkit grep. #348
  • seqkit faidx:
    • allow empty lines at the end of sequences.
  • seqkit faidx/sort/shuffle/split/subseq:
    • new flag -U/--update-faidx: update the FASTA index file if it exists, to guarantee the index file matches the FASTA files. #364
    • improve log info and update help message. #365
  • seqkit seq:
    • allow filtering sequences of length zero. thanks to @penglbio.
  • seqkit rename:
    • new flag -s/--separator for setting separator between original ID/name and the counter (default "_"). #360
    • new flag -N/--start-num for setting starting count number for duplicated IDs/names (default 2). #360
    • new flag -1/--rename-1st-rec for renaming the first record as well. #360
    • do not append space if there's no description after the sequene ID.
  • seqkit sliding:
    • new flag -S/--suffix for change the suffix added to the sequence ID (default: "_sliding").

SeqKit v2.3.1

Changes

• SeqKit v2.3.1 - 2022-09-22
  • seqkit grep/locate: fix bug of FMIndex building for empty sequences. #321
  • seqkit split2: fix bug of splitting two FASTA files. #325
  • seqkit faidx: --id-regexp works now.

SeqKit v2.3.0

Changes

• SeqKit v2.3.0 - 2022-08-12
  • seqkit grep/rename:
    • reduce memory comsumption for a lot of searching patterns, and it's faster. #305
    • 2X faster -s/--by-seq.
  • seqkit split
    • fix outputting an empty file when the number of sequence equal to the split size. #293
    • add options to set output file prefix and extention. #296
  • seqkit split2
    • reduce memory consumption. #304
    • add options to set output file prefix
  • seqkit stats:
    • add GC content. #294

SeqKit v2.2.0

Changes

• SeqKit v2.2.0 - 2022-03-14
  • seqkit:
    • add support of zx and zstd input/output formats. #274
    • fix panic when reading records with header of ID + blanks.
  • new command seqkit sum: computing message digest for all sequences in FASTA/Q files.
    The idea comes from @photocyte and the format borrows from seqhash #262
  • new command seqkit fa2fq: retrieving corresponding FASTQ records by a FASTA file
  • seqkit split2:
    • new flag -e/--extension for forcing compresson or changing compression format. #276
    • support changing output prefix via -o/--out-file. #275
  • seqkit concat:
    • fix handling of multiple seqs with the same ID in one file. #269
    • performaning out/full join. #270
    • preserve the comments. #271
  • seqkit locate:
    • parallelizing -F/--use-fmi and -m for large number of search patterns.
  • seqkit amplicon:
    • new flag -M/--output-mismatches to append the total mismatches and mismatches of 5' end and 3' end. #286
  • seqkit grep:
    • detect FASTA/Q symbol @ and > in the searching patterns and show warnings.
    • add new flag -C/--count, like grep -c in GNU grep. #267
  • seqkit range:
    • support removing leading 100 seqs (seqkit range -r 101:-1 == tail -n +101). #279
  • seqkit subseq:
    • report error when no options were given.
  • update doc:
    • seqkit head: add doc for "seqkit tail": seqkit range -N:-1 seqs.fasta. #272
    • seqkit rmdup: add the note of only the first record being saved for duplicates. #265

SeqKit v2.1.0

Changelog

• SeqKit v2.1.0 - 2021-11-15
  • seqkit seq:
    • fix filtering by average quality -Q/-R. #257
  • seqkit convert:
    • fix quality encoding checking, change default value of -N/--thresh-B-in-n-most-common from 4 to 2.
      #254 and #239
  • seqkit split:
    • fix writing an extra empty file when using --two-pass#244
  • seqkit subseq:
    • fix --bed which fail to recognize strand ..
  • seqkit fq2fa:
    • faster, and do not wrap sequences.
  • seqkit grep/locate/mutate:
    • detect unquoted comma and show warning message, e.g., -p 'A{2,}'. #250

SeqKit v2.0.0

Changelogs

• SeqKit v2.0.0 - 2021-08-27
  • Performance improvements
    • seqkit:
      • faster FASTA/Q reading and writing, especially on FASTQ, see the benchmark.
        • reading (plain text): 4X faster. seqkit stats dataset_C.fq
        • reading (gzip files): 45% faster. seqkit stats dataset_C.fq.gz
        • reading + writing (plain text): 3.5X faster. seqkit grep -p . -v dataset_C.fq -o t
        • reading + writing (gzip files): 2.2X faster. seqkit grep -p . -v dataset_C.fq.gz -o t.gz
      • change default value of -j/--threads from 2 to 4, which is faster for writting gzip files.
    • seqkit seq:
      • fix writing speed, which was slowed down in v0.12.1.
  • Breaking changes
    • seqkit grep/rmdup/common:
      • consider reverse complement sequence by default for comparing by sequence, add flag -P/--only-positive-strand. #215
    • seqkit rename:
      • rename ID only, do not append original header to new ID. #236
    • seqkit fx2tab:
      • for -s/--seq-hash: outputing MD5 instead of hash value (integers) of xxhash. #219
  • Bugfixes
    • seqkit seq:
      • fix failing to output gzipped format for file name with extension of .gz since v0.12.1.
    • seqkit tab2fx:
      • fix bug for very long sequences. #214
    • seqkit fish:
      • fix range check. #213
    • seqkit grep:
      • it's not exactly a bug: forgot to use multi-threads for -m > 0.
  • New features/enhancements
    • seqkit grep:
      • allow empty pattern files.
    • seqkit faidx:
      • support region with begin > end, i.e., returning reverse complement sequence
      • add new flag -l/--region-file: file containing a list of regions.
    • seqkit fx2tab:
      • new flag -Q/--no-qual for disabling outputing quality even for FASTQ file. #221
    • seqkit amplicon:
      • new flag -u/--save-unmatched for saving records that do not match any primer.
    • seqkit sort:
      • new flag -b/--by-bases for sorting by non-gap bases, for multiple sequence alignment files.#216