sonicparanoid 1.3.0b6

SonicParanoid: fast, easy and accurate orthology inference

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SonicParanoid

A fast, accurate and easy to use orthology inference tool.

Description

SonicParanoid is a stand-alone software for the identification of orthologous relationships among multiple species. SonicParanoid is an open source software released under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 3.0 (GPLv3), implemented in Python3, Cython, and C++. It works on Linux and Mac OSX. The software is designed to run using multiple processors and proved to be up to 1245X faster then InParanoid, 166X faster than Proteinortho, and 172X faster than OrthoFinder 2.0 with an accuracy comparable to that of well-established orthology inference tools. Thanks to its speed, accuracy, and usability SonicParanoid substantially relieves the difficulties of orthology inference for biologists who need to construct and maintain their own genomic datasets.

SonicParanoid was tested on the 2011 version of a benchmark proteome dataset provided by the Quest for Orthologs (QfO) consortium (https://questfororthologs.org), and its accuracy was assessed, and compared to that of other 13 methods, using a publicly available orthology benchmarking service (http://orthology.benchmarkservice.org).

SonicParanoid is available at http://iwasakilab.bs.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sonicparanoid.

Citation

> Salvatore Cosentino and Wataru Iwasaki (2018) SonicParanoid: fast, accurate and easy orthology inference. Bioinformatics

> Volume 35, Issue 1, 1 January 2019, Pages 149–151,

> https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty631

Changelog

1.3.0 (October XX, 2019)

• Enhancement: SonicParanoid is mcuh faster! Check the web-page…

• Enhancement: run directory names embed information on the run settings

• Others: Big thanks to Shun Yamanouchi for providing the bacterial datasets used for testing

• Fix: force overwriting of MMseqs2 binaries if the version is different from the supported one

• Maintenance: upgraded to MMseqs2 version 10-6d92c

1.2.6 (August 26, 2019)

• Fix: "to many files open" error which sometimes happened when using more than 20 threads

1.2.5 (August 7, 2019)

• Fix: Logical threads are considered instead of physical cores in the adjustment of the threads number

• Requirements: a minimum of 1.75 gigabytes per thread is required (the number of threads is automatically adjusted)

• Enhancement: added parameter --force-all-threads to bypass the check for minimum per-thread memory

1.2.4 (July 14, 2019)

• Enhancement: Added control to avoid selecting a number threads higher than the available physical CPU cores (big thanks to Shun Yamanouchi)

• Fix: Removed some scipy warnings, now shown only in debug mode (thanks to Alexie Papanicolaou)

• Requirements: psutils>=5.6.0 is now required

• Requirements: mypy>=0.701 is now required

• Requirements: at least Python 3.6 is now required

1.2.3 (June 7, 2019)

• Enhancement: some error messages are more informative (big thanks to Jeff Stein)

1.2.2 (May 13, 2019)

• Fix: solved a bug that caused MCL to be not properly compiled on some Linux distributions

• Info: source code migrated to GitLab

1.2.1 (May 10, 2019)

• Fix: solved bug related to random missing alignments

• Info: this issue was first described in here

1.2.0 (April 26, 2019)

• Change: Markov Clustering (MCL) is now used by default for the creation of ortholog groups

• Enhancement: the MCL inflation can be controlled through the parameter --inflation

• Enhancement: Output file with single-copy ortholog groups

• Feature: single-linkage clustering for ortholog groups creation through the --single-linkage parameter

• Enhancement: added secondary program to filter ortholog groups

• Info: type sonicparanoid-extract --help to see the list of options

• Enhancement: Filter ortholog groups by species ID

• Enhancement: Filter ortholog groups by species composition (e.g., only groups with given number of species)

• Enhancement: Extract FASTA sequences of orthologs in selected groups

• Fix: The correct version of SonicParanoid is now shown in the help

• Others: General bug fixes and under-the-hood improvements

1.1.2 (March, 2019)

• Enhancement: Filter ortholog groups by species ID

• Enhancement: Filter ortholog groups by species composition (e.g., only groups with given number of species)

• Enhancement: Extract FASTA files corresponding orthologs in selected groups

• Fix: The correct version of SonicParanoid is now shown in the help

1.1.1 (January 24, 2019)

• Enhancement: No restriction on file names

• Enhancement: No restriction on symbols used in FASTA headers

• Enhancement: Added file with genes that could not be inserted in any group (not orthologs)

• Enhancement: Added some statistics on the predicted ortholog groups

• Enhancement: Update runs are automatically detected

• Enhancement: Improved inference of in-paralogs

• Change: The directory structure has been redesigned to better support run updated

1.0.14 (October 19, 2018)

• Enhancement: a warning is shown if non-protein sequences are given in input

• Enhancement: upgraded to MMseqs2 6-f5a1c

• Enhancement: SonicParanoid is now available through Bioconda (https://bioconda.github.io/recipes/sonicparanoid/README.html)

1.0.13 (September 18, 2018)

• Fix: allow FASTA headers containing the ‘@’ symbol

1.0.12 (September 7, 2018)

• Improved accuracy

• Added new sensitivity mode (most-sensitive)

• Fix: internal input directory is wiped at every new run

• Fix: available disk space calculation

1.0.11 (August 7, 2018)

• Added new program (sonicparanoid-extract) to process output multi-species clusters

• Added the possibility to analyse only 2 proteomes

• Added support for Python3.7

• Python3 versions: 3.5, 3.6, 3.7

• Upgraded MMseqs2 (commit: a856ce, August 6, 2018)

1.0.9 (May 10, 2018)

• First public release

• Python3 versions: 3.4, 3.5, 3.6