kmertools: DNA Vectorisation Tool

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Overview

kmertools is a k-mer based feature extraction tool designed to support metagenomics and other bioinformatics analytics. This tool leverages k-mer analysis to vectorize DNA sequences, facilitating the use of these vectors in various AI/ML applications.

NEW: kmertools is now available on bioconda at https://anaconda.org/bioconda/kmertools.

Features

• Oligonucleotide Frequency Vectors: Generate frequency vectors for oligonucleotides.
• Minimiser Binning: Efficiently bin sequences using minimisers to reduce data complexity.
• Chaos Game Representation (CGR): Compute CGR vectors for DNA sequences based on k-mers or whole sequence transformation.
• Coverage Histograms: Create coverage histograms to analyze the depth of sequencing reads.

Installation

Option 1: from bioconda (recommended)

You can install kmertools from Bioconda at https://anaconda.org/bioconda/kmertools. Make sure you have conda installed.

# create conda environment and install kmertools
conda create -n kmertools -c bioconda kmertools

# activate environment
conda activate kmertools

Option 2: from sources

You can install kmertools directly from the source by cloning the repository and using Rust's package manager cargo.

git clone https://github.com/your-repository/kmertools.git
cd kmertools
cargo build --release

Now add the binary to path (you may modify ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc)

# to add to current terminal
export PATH=$PATH:$(pwd)/target/release/

# to save to ~/.bashrc
echo "export PATH=\$PATH:$(pwd)/target/release/" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

# to save to ~/.zshrc for Mac
echo "export PATH=\$PATH:$(pwd)/target/release/" >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

Test the installation

After setting up, run the following command to print out the kmertools help message.

kmertools --help

Help

Please read our comprehensive Wiki.

Authors

• Anuradha Wickramarachchi https://anuradhawick.com
• Vijini Mallawaarachchi https://vijinimallawaarachchi.com

Citation

If you use kmertools please cite as follows.

@software{Wickramarachchi_kmertools_DNA_Vectorisation,
  author = {Wickramarachchi, Anuradha and Mallawaarachchi, Vijini},
  title = {{kmertools: DNA Vectorisation Tool}},
  url = {https://github.com/anuradhawick/kmertools},
  version = {0.1.0}
}

Please refer to the Wiki for citations of relevant algorithms.

Support and contributions

Please get in touch via author websites or GitHub issues. Thanks!