Replaced the legacy Sankoff parsimony pipeline with a new cardinality-composition decomposition that constructs row-normalized transition probability matrices symmetrized via geometric mean. This ensures reversibility, reduces free parameters from 240 to 120, and guarantees a zero diagonal. Tallies are now explicitly restricted to variable families to align with +ASC-corrected alignment populations. Additionally, fixed `--exclude-genome` handling to re-scan surviving sequences and drop newly monomorphic columns, preventing silent data corruption in downstream tree inference tools.
Implements a calibrated 16-state Sankoff substitution cost matrix and CLI pipeline for evolutionary distance computation, including empirical calibration via saturation-filtered SNP counts. Refactors the sibling scanning stage to use batched transforms for improved synchronization efficiency. Introduces an OS-level advisory directory lock across all index-modifying commands to prevent concurrent write corruption. Updates dependencies and exposes new Sankoff utilities in the public API.
Eric Coissac