NASP Release Notes

0.9.6:

VCF files with missing headers now throw a "MalformedInputFile" error instead of hanging.
Rewrote multithreading parameter passing algorithm to fix race condition again.
Modified data storage algorithm to speed the matrix-building process at the cost of memory use.
Improvements made to sample and analysis statistics, and new improved statistics file format.
Aligner and SNP caller program name expected values are now more tolerant and open-ended.
Insertion data no longer appears in the filtered matrix; one character per matrix cell.
Files that fail to be read are now represented with blank matrix columns to alert the user.
Fully Python job dispatcher and command-line UI -- all code now written in Python
Run log is written to output folder with choices the user made in the UI and commands that were submitted to job manager
Main nasp executable can accept an XML file with configuration parameters instead of going through UI
XML configuration file is written to output folder on every run
Support for SLURM job manager and specifying queues/partitions and other job manager options for both PBS and SLURM