obitools4/Release-notes.md

OBITools release notes

Ongoing changes

March 31th, 2023. Release 4.0.2

Compiler change

OBItools4 requires now GO 1.20 to compile.

New features

• Add the possibility for looking pattern with indels. This has been added to obimultiplex through the --with-indels option.
• Every obitools command has a --pprof option making the command publishing a profiling web site available at the address : http://localhost:8080/debug/pprof/
• A new obiconsensus command has been added. It is a prototype. It aims to build a consensus sequence from a set of reads. The consensus is estimated for all the sequences contained in the input file. If several input files, or a directory name are provided the result contains a consensus per file. The id of the sequence is the name of the input file depleted of its directory name and of all its extensions.
• In obipcr an experimental option --fragmented allows for spliting very long query sequences into shorter fragments with an overlap between the two contiguous fragment insuring that no amplicons are missed despite the split. As a site effect some amplicon can be identified twice.
• In obipcr the -L option is now mandatory.

Enhancement

• Add support for IUPAC DNA code into the DNA sequence LCS computation and an end free gap mode. This impact obitag and obimultiplex in the --with-indels mode.
• Print the synopsis of the command when an error is done by the user at typing the command
• Reduced the memory copy and allocation during the sequence creation.

Corrected bugs

• Better management of non-existing files. The produced error message is not yet perfectly clear.
• Patch a bug leading with some programs to crash because of : "empty batch pushed on the channel"
• Patch a bug when directory names are used as input data name preventing the system to actually analyze the collected files.
• Make the --help or -h options working when mandatory options are declared
• In obimultiplex correct a bug leading to a wrong report of the count of reverse mismatch for sequences in reverse direction.
• In obimultiplex correct a bug when not enough space exist between the extremities of the sequence and the primer matches to fit the sample identification tag
• In obipcr correction of bug leading to miss some amplicons when several amplicons are present on the same large sequence.

March 7th, 2023. Release 4.0.1

Corrected bugs

• Makes progress bar updating at most 10 times per second.
• Makes the command exiting on error if undefined options are used.

Enhancement

• OBITools are automatically processing all the sequences files contained in a directory and its sub-directory
  recursively if its name is provided as input. To process easily Genbank files, the corresponding filename extensions have been added. Today the following extensions are recognized as sequence files : .fasta, .fastq, .seq, .gb, .dat, and .ecopcr. The corresponding gziped version are also recognized (e.g. .fasta.gz)

New features

• Takes into account the OBIMAXCPU environmental variable to limit the number of CPU cores used by OBITools in bash the below command will limit to 4 cores the usage of OBITools

  export OBICPUMAX=4
  

• Adds a new option --out|-o allowing to specify the name of an outpout file.

  obiconvert -o xyz.fasta xxx.fastq
  

  is thus equivalent to

  obiconvert  xxx.fastq > xyz.fasta
  

  That option is actually mainly useful for dealing with paired reads sequence files.

• Some OBITools (now obigrep and obiconvert) are capable of using paired read files. Options have been added for this (--paired-with FILENAME, and --paired-mode forward|reverse|and|andnot|xor). This, in combination with the --out option shown above, ensures that the two matched files remain consistent when processed.

• Adding of the function ifelse to the expression language for computing conditionnal values.

• Adding two function to the expression language related to sequence conposition : composition and gcskew. Both are taking a sequence as single argument.

February 18th, 2023. Release 4.0.0

It is the first version of the OBITools version 4. I decided to tag then following two weeks of intensive data analysis with them allowing to discover many small bugs present in the previous non-official version. Obviously other bugs are certainly persent in the code, and you are welcome to use the git ticket system to mention them. But they seems to produce now reliable results.

Corrected bugs

• On some computers the end of the output file was lost, leading to the loose of sequences and to the production of incorrect file because of the last sequence record, sometime truncated in its middle. This was only occurring when more than a single CPU was used. It was affecting every obitools.
• The obiparing software had a bug in the right aligment procedure. This led to the non alignment of very sort barcode during the paring of the forward and reverse reads.
• The obipairing tools had a non deterministic comportment when aligning a paor very low quality reads. This induced that the result of the same low quality read pair was not the same from run to run.

New features

• Adding of a --compress|-Z option to every obitools allowing to produce gz compressed output. OBITools were already able to deal with gziped input files transparently. They can now produce their résults in the same format.
• Adding of a --append|-A option to the obidistribute tool. It allows to append the result of an obidistribute execution to preexisting files.
• Adding of a --directory|-d option to the obidistribute tool. It allows to declare a secondary classification key over the one defined by the '--category|-c` option. This extra key leads to produce directories in which files produced according to the primary criterion are stored.
• Adding of the functions subspc, printf, int, numeric, and bool to the expression language.