[FEATURE REQUESTS] - post here for suggestions/feature requests

[bluenote-1577]

Feature requests

Purpose: this is a place to easily log suggestions/feature requests. E.g:

• "I want to display XXX output as an option!"
• "I want to be able to combine database sketches!"

Give a rationale and provide concise/clear instructions if possible. Opinions are welcome too.

You're welcome to email me or open another issue. This thread is to aggregate suggestions without the hassle of opening another issue.

Current feature requests

Here are some current feature requests.

Originally posted by @jolespin in bluenote-1577/skani#23 (comment)

• Option for renaming samples. Sylph currently fixes each sample sketch to the read names. ` done in v0.5.0
• Command line options for inspecting database sketches.
• Command line option to append/merge databases.
• Line-delimited file for database sketches for sylph profile/query done in v0.5.0

@fplaza #6 (comment)

• Save read length while sketching so the user does not have to provide it to compute true coverage. done in v0.5.0

#7

• Different ways of sketching reads and groupings

[fplazaonate]

Hi Jim,
Here is a suggestion:
Save read length while sketching so the user does not have to provide it to compute true coverage.

[astrovsky01]

Is there/could there be a method to output unassigned reads into a file as an output?

[bluenote-1577]

Hi @astrovsky01,

This is unfortunately not possible due to the way sylph works. It doesn't classify each read. It operates on the ensemble of reads. This means it can not output unassigned reads, only estimate the percentage of.