This is Jianshu again, recently our team here at Georgia tech review a very interesting paper (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.18.524587v1), the tool is called skani, which further accelerate FastANI by 20 times via even faster seeding and chaining technique and also FracMinHash (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.11.475870v3.abstract). More importantly it is fully parallelized and written in Rust. I tried and benchmarked it against blast based ani an also orthoANI (as in the paper) and it is just as good as FastANI while being 20X faster. I believe integrating it into coverm cluster will be very easy since the code is very clear to me.
Hello Ben,
This is Jianshu again, recently our team here at Georgia tech review a very interesting paper (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.18.524587v1), the tool is called skani, which further accelerate FastANI by 20 times via even faster seeding and chaining technique and also FracMinHash (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.11.475870v3.abstract). More importantly it is fully parallelized and written in Rust. I tried and benchmarked it against blast based ani an also orthoANI (as in the paper) and it is just as good as FastANI while being 20X faster. I believe integrating it into coverm cluster will be very easy since the code is very clear to me.
Thanks,
Jianshu