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filter

Apply row-level selection to an index: retain only kmers matching ingroup/outgroup predicates over genome membership, plus optional total-count and complexity thresholds. The output is a new, single-layer index.

obikmer filter SOURCE -o OUTPUT [OPTIONS]

Arguments

Argument Description
SOURCE Source index directory

Options

Option Default Description
-o, --output — (required) Output index directory
-f, --force off Overwrite an existing output directory
--presence off Output presence/absence instead of counts
--min-total-count none Minimum total count across all genomes (count index only)
--max-total-count none Maximum total count across all genomes
--min-complexity none Minimum normalized entropy (same score as --theta at index build time), recomputed from the stored unitig sequences
--complexity-level-max 6 Maximum sub-word size for the complexity score (used only with --min-complexity)

Predicate options

Option Default Description
--ingroup none Ingroup predicate (repeatable; each occurrence is ANDed)
--outgroup none Outgroup predicate (repeatable; each occurrence is ORed)
--min-count 0, or group size + N if negative Minimum number of ingroup genomes carrying the kmer
--max-count ingroup group size Maximum number of ingroup genomes carrying the kmer
--min-frac 1.0 if --ingroup given without an explicit quorum, else 0.0 Minimum fraction of ingroup genomes
--max-frac 1.0 Maximum fraction of ingroup genomes
--min-outgroup-count 0 Minimum number of outgroup genomes carrying the kmer
--max-outgroup-count 0 if --outgroup given without an explicit quorum, else outgroup group size Maximum number of outgroup genomes
--min-outgroup-frac 0.0 Minimum fraction of outgroup genomes
--max-outgroup-frac 1.0 Maximum fraction of outgroup genomes
--presence-threshold 0 Minimum count for a genome to be considered a carrier of a kmer

See Genome predicates and taxonomy paths for the predicate syntax used by --ingroup/--outgroup.

A negative --min-count/--max-count is interpreted as an offset from the group size — e.g. --min-count=-1 means "all but one".

Declaring --ingroup with no explicit ingroup quorum flag implicitly sets --min-frac 1.0 (present in every ingroup genome). Declaring --outgroup with no explicit outgroup quorum flag implicitly sets --max-outgroup-count 0 (absent from every outgroup genome). Any explicit quorum flag for a group disables that group's implicit default.