OrthoANI (Orthologous Average Nucleotide Identity) is a kind of similarity values between two genome sequences. It is an improved version of the original ANI (Average Nucleotide Identity) and is one of the OGRIs. It can be used for classification and identification of Bacteria, and the proposed cutoff for species boundary is 95~96%. The algorithm has been published by Lee et al. (2015) and the software tools are available here . Later, we developed a faster version, named OrthiANIu, using usearch program instead of BLAST. The software tools are available as web-service and standalone program.
OrthoANIu is the standard algorithm used to build the EzBioCloud database. The publication for OrthoANIu tool is available here.
The major differences between the original ANI and OrthoANI are:
- For the original ANI, you need to obtain the reciprocal values (i.e., A->B & B->A), and use the mean value for taxonomic use. In contrast, you only need a single value (A<->B) for OrthoANI.
- OrthoANI is faster than the original ANI.
Last updated on Sep 11, 2017
