v1.2

What's Changed

Improve Python bindings and Windows & Apple Silicon support by @ThePituLegend in #11

• Now offering a proper Python module, which is installable from PyPI or source. Check bindings/python for more information.
• Platform support extended from Linux/macOS x86_64 to Windows x86_64 and macOS M1.

Full Changelog: v1.1-fix...v1.2

Precompiled binaries

We offer pre-compiled versions of QuickEd tools (generate-dataset and align-benchmark) for Linux (x86_64), Windows (x86_64) and macOS (x86_64 and Apple Silicon), both with and without SSE4.1+AVX2.
If this configuration is incompatible with your environment, please compile your own binaries.

v1.1

What's Changed

• New vectorized implementation of the BandEd BPM using AVX2 (by @criniguez).
• This new version achieves up to 2.8x speedup w.r.t. v1.0.

Full Changelog: v1.0...v1.1

Precompiled binaries

We offer pre-compiled versions of QuickEd tools (generate-dataset and align-benchmark) for x86-64, both with and without SSE4.1+AVX2.
If this configuration is incompatible with your environment, please compile your own binaries.

Initial Release - v1.0

QuickEd is a high-performance exact sequence alignment based on the bound-and-align paradigm.

Precompiled binaries

We offer pre-compiled versions of QuickEd tools (generate-dataset and align-benchmark) for x86-64+SSE4.1, to fully exploit the capabilities of the library.
If this configuration is incompatible with your environment, please compile your own binaries.

Authors: - @maxdoblas - @ThePituLegend - @quim0 - @criniguez - @mmoreto - @smarco