pyANI-plus

Leighton Pritchard; Peter Cock; Angelika Kiepas

pyANI-plus

Leighton Pritchard^* (Developer)
, Peter Cock (Developer)
, Angelika Kiepas (Developer)

^*Corresponding author for this work

Strathclyde Institute Of Pharmacy And Biomedical Sciences

Research output: Digital or non-textual outputs › Software

Abstract

pyani-plus is an application and Python module for whole-genome classification of microbes using Average Nucleotide Identity and similar methods. It is a reimplemented version of pyani with support for additional schedulers and methods.

Original language	English
Media of output	Online
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2025

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 14 Life Below Water
SDG 15 Life on Land

Keywords

bioinformatics
microbiology
taxonomy
genomics

Access to Document

https://github.com/pyani-plus/pyani-plus/releases/tag/v0.0.1Licence: Other

1 Finished

BBSRC-NSF/BIO: Collaborative Proposal: genomeRxiv: a microbial whole-genome database and diagnostic marker design resource for classification, identification, and data sharing
Pritchard, L. (Principal Investigator)
BBSRC (Biotech & Biological Sciences Research Council)
8/03/21 → 28/03/25
Project: Research

3 Poster
2 Article
1 Conference Contribution
1 Working paper

pyani-plus: a multitool for average nucleotide identity estimation
Pritchard, L., Kiepas, A. & Cock, P., 13 Apr 2026. 1 p.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster

Open Access
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Objective benchmarking and recommendations for Overall Genome Relatedness Index (OGRI) methods
Pritchard, L., 13 Jul 2025. 1 p.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster

Open Access
File
8 Downloads (Pure)
LINgroups as a robust principled approach to compare and integrate multiple bacterial taxonomies
Mazloom, R., Pierce-Ward, N. T., Sharma, P., Pritchard, L., Brown, C. T., Vinatzer, B. A. & Heath, L. S., Nov 2024, In: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics . 21, 6, p. 2304-2314 11 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
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3 Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)

30 Downloads (Pure)

2 Invited talk

ANI Old Method Won't Do: objective benchmarking of ANI/OGRI methods
Pritchard, L. (Speaker), Kiepas, A. (Contributor) & Cock, P. (Contributor)
14 Apr 2026
Activity: Talk or Presentation › Invited talk
pyANI-plus: whole genome classification of microbes with Average Nucleotide Identity (ANI) and similar methods
Cock, P. (Speaker), Kiepas, A. (Contributor) & Pritchard, L. (Contributor)
21 Jul 2025
Activity: Talk or Presentation › Invited talk

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pyANI-plus

Abstract

UN SDGs

Keywords

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Projects

BBSRC-NSF/BIO: Collaborative Proposal: genomeRxiv: a microbial whole-genome database and diagnostic marker design resource for classification, identification, and data sharing

Research output

pyani-plus: a multitool for average nucleotide identity estimation

Objective benchmarking and recommendations for Overall Genome Relatedness Index (OGRI) methods

LINgroups as a robust principled approach to compare and integrate multiple bacterial taxonomies

Activities

ANI Old Method Won't Do: objective benchmarking of ANI/OGRI methods

pyANI-plus: whole genome classification of microbes with Average Nucleotide Identity (ANI) and similar methods

Cite this