nf-core/pairgenomealign
Pairwise genome comparison pipeline using the LAST software to align a list of query genomes to a target genome, and plot the results
comparative-genomicsdot-plotgenomicslastpairwise-alignmentsyntenywhole-genome-alignment
Version history
v2.0.0 “Naga imo” - [February 5th, 2025]
Breaking changes
- The LAST software was updated and it has new defaults for some of its parameters. The alignments ran with this pipeline will not be identical to the ones from older versions.
Added
- The
alignment/lastdb
directory is not output anymore. It consumed space, is not usually needed for downstream analysis, and can be re-computed identically if needed. - The many-to-one alignment file is not output anymore by default, to save
space. To keep this file, you can run the pipeline in
many-to-many
mode with the--m2m
parameter. - The
--seed
parameter allows for all the existing values in thelastdb
program. - Errors caused by absence of alignments at training or plotting steps are now ignored.
- New parameter
--export_aln_to
that creates additional files containing the alignments in a different format such as Axt, Chain, GFF or SAM.
Fixed
This release brings the pipeline to the standards of Nextflow 24.10.1 and nf-core 3.1.0. No changes were made to the alignment process.
Added a new softmask
parameter, to optionally keep original softmasking.
Initial release. Thanks again to my colleagues, collaborators, and the nf-core community.
nf-core/pairgenomealign is a bioinformatics pipeline that aligns one or more query genomes to a target genome, and plots pairwise representations.