BioSAK (A Swiss-Army-Knife for Bioinformaticians)

Contact

Shan Zhang^1,2 and Weizhi Song^1,2

¹ Center for Marine Science & Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

² Department of Ocean Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

E-mail: shanzhang@ust.hk and songwz03@gmail.com

Installation

• BioSAK has been tested on Linux/Mac, but NOT yet on Windows.

• BioSAK is implemented in python3, you can

  • install it with pip3 install BioSAK

  • upgrade it with pip3 install --upgrade BioSAK

• If you are an UNSW Katana user, this might be helpful.

BioSAK modules

• Type BioSAK -h to see a full list of modules available in BioSAK.

• A changelog is here.

Getting help

• You can get example commands for most of the modules by typing, for example, BioSAK iTOL -h.

• Please refer to the documentation page for help (in preparation, very messy).

• A license statement is here.