Document limitations of various $\alpha$-estimation methods, clarifying that tree-based methods require a tree for accurate heterogeneity estimation and that `PartitionDispersion` avoids violating identifiability requirements.
Introduces support for rate heterogeneity via a Poisson-Gamma mixture model. This includes new command-line options (`--gamma-shape`, `--gamma-shape auto`) to enable automatic estimation of the shape parameter $\alpha$ based on substitution counts across partitions. The correction is applied to the distance metric, with logic to disable the correction if variance checks fail.
Renames the CLI flag from --metric to --distance and introduces eight closed-form SNP distance models with optional Jin-Nei gamma correction. Integrates the ndarray crate for matrix operations and adds relaxed PHYLIP output formatting. Updates architecture and theory documentation to cover the new sparse matrix variants, algorithmic fixes, and distance metric implementations.
Extends the phylogenetic pipeline with exporters for TNT, PhyG, and IQ-TREE that generate executable scripts, cost matrices, and recoded alignments. Adds internal helpers for state indexing, floating-point matrix scaling, and Floyd-Warshall metric closure to satisfy external tool constraints. Adjusts visibility modifiers for sibling iterators and entropy annex structs, and updates design documentation for evolutionary distance metrics.
The command now supports reopening existing indexes instead of failing when the output file exists. Control flow branches between opening an existing index and constructing a new one, moving configuration setup exclusively to the creation path. Directory existence is enforced upfront with proper I/O error propagation. The --force flag retains its original semantics by removing the target directory before proceeding with a fresh build.
Update Cargo manifests, dependency paths, and Rust imports across the workspace to reflect the `obikpartitionner` to `obikpartition` rename. Synchronize architecture and implementation documentation with the new module structure. Fix minor syntax issues in test assertions to ensure compilation compatibility. No behavioral or API changes are introduced.
Introduces --iqtree-min-freq (default 0.001) to treat low-frequency nucleotide states as missing data during IQ-TREE alignment generation when --free-loss is active. This triggers a recoding pass that folds rare states into the missing symbol, followed by non-informative site removal and alphabet recomputation to maintain output consistency. The change also adds Sankoff model configuration files and updates related tests and documentation.
Replaces premature exponentiation-based row normalization with log-sum-exp arithmetic to prevent tiny probabilities from collapsing to exactly zero. This eliminates spurious infinite costs for valid but rare transitions while preserving correct IEEE 754 semantics for genuinely unobserved pairs. Adds explicit guards against NaN in degenerate rows and includes a regression test verifying finite costs for probabilities as low as 1e-200.
Generates a new CSV output that maps IQ-TREE's compact state symbols to canonical states alongside full-precision empirical frequencies. Updates documentation to clarify that state frequencies sum to 1.0 by design and documents conditional behavior under `--free-loss`. Includes unit tests verifying absent state exclusion, frequency summation, and CSV structure. Also restricts entropy annex resolution to non-monomorphic minorants to eliminate redundant per-genome checks.
Eric Coissac