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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+#
+# author: M Radey (email: marad_at_uw.edu)
+#
+
+import os, sys, glob, argparse
+import multiprocessing as mp
+from subprocess import run
+from Bio import SeqIO
+from concurrent.futures import ProcessPoolExecutor, as_completed
+from pathlib import Path
+from tqdm import tqdm
+from shutil import which
+from colorama import init as cinit
+from colorama import Fore, Back, Style
+
+version     = "1.0.0"
+
+cinit(autoreset=True)
+
+def do_args():
+    desc = "Make user region GFFs to use with the Bakta --regions feature"
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog=os.path.basename(__file__), description=desc)
+    parser.add_argument("seqs", help="specifies the path to a Fasta file with the CDS " +\
+        "sequences to be searched for in the genomes.")
+    parser.add_argument("genomes", help="specifies the path to a directory with the Fasta " +\
+        "sequences of the genomes to be processed.")
+    parser.add_argument("outdir", help="specifies the output directory")
+    parser.add_argument("-t", "--threads", type=int, default=mp.cpu_count(),\
+        help="specifies the number of threads to use. The default is %(default)s.")
+    parser.add_argument("-m", "--minident", type=float, default=0.9,\
+        help="specifies the minimum identity value to use for matching, where sequence " +\
+        "matches below the threshold will be excluded. The default is %(default)s.")
+    return parser.parse_args()
+
+def search_seqs_task(vals):
+    db, genome, outdir, minident, diamond = vals
+    outfile = str(outdir) + "/" + Path(genome).stem + ".tab"
+    # str(minident), '--outfmt', '"6 qseqid qstart qend qstrand pident"', '--out', outfile]
+    args1 = [diamond, 'blastx', '--quiet', '--threads', '1', '--db', db, '-q', genome, '--id',\
+        str(minident), '--outfmt', '6', 'qseqid', 'sseqid', 'qstart', 'qend', 'qstrand', 'pident',\
+        'qseq', '--out', outfile]
+    run(args1, shell=False)
+
+def search_seqs(seqs, genomes, outdir, minident, threads):
+    diamond = which("diamond")
+    if diamond == None:
+        print(Fore.RED + "ERROR: Could not find diamond program.")
+        sys.exit()
+    if not outdir.exists(): os.mkdir(str(outdir))
+    mydb = str(outdir) + "/db"
+    print(Fore.CYAN + "Making sequence database...")
+    args1 = [diamond, 'makedb', '--quiet', '--in', str(seqs), '-d', mydb]
+    run(args1, shell=False)
+    infiles = glob.glob(str(genomes) + "/*.fa")
+    infiles += glob.glob(str(genomes) + "/*.fna")
+    infiles += glob.glob(str(genomes) + "/*.fsa")
+    infiles += glob.glob(str(genomes) + "/*.fasta")
+    print(Fore.CYAN + "Searching genomes...")
+    with tqdm(total=len(infiles), colour='green') as pbar:
+        with ProcessPoolExecutor(max_workers=threads) as executor:
+            futures = []
+            for infile in infiles:
+                futures.append(executor.submit(search_seqs_task, (mydb, infile, str(outdir),\
+                    minident, diamond)))
+            for future in as_completed(futures):
+                if future.cancelled():
+                    print(Fore.RED + "ERROR: Future was cancelled.")
+                elif not future.exception() == None:
+                    print(Fore.RED + "ERROR: Future returned exception:")
+                    raise future.exception()
+                pbar.update(1)
+    os.remove(mydb + ".dmnd")
+
+def process_results(outdir):
+    print(Fore.CYAN + "Processing results...")
+    infiles = glob.glob(str(outdir) + "/*.tab")
+    for infile in tqdm(infiles, colour='green'):
+        outfile = str(Path(infile).parent) + "/" + Path(infile).stem + ".gff3"
+        with open(outfile, 'wt') as o:
+            o.write('##gff-version 3\n')
+            names = []
+            seqs = []
+            with open(infile, 'rt') as n:
+                for line in n:
+                    qseqid, sseqid, qstart, qend, qstrand, pident,\
+                        qseq = line.rstrip('\n').split('\t')
+                    o.write('\t'.join([qseqid, 'user', 'CDS', qstart, qend, '.', qstrand,\
+                        '0', 'gene=' + sseqid]) + '\n') 
+                    names.append(sseqid)
+                    seqs.append(qseq)
+            o.write('##FASTA\n')
+            for name, seq in zip(names, seqs):
+                o.write('>' + name + '\n' + seq + '\n')
+        os.remove(infile)
+
+def main():
+    # setup
+    args = do_args()
+    print(Fore.GREEN + Style.BRIGHT + "\u2022 Using " + str(args.threads) + " processor cores.")
+    args.seqs = Path(args.seqs).absolute()
+    args.genomes = Path(args.genomes).absolute()
+    args.outdir = Path(args.outdir).absolute()
+    search_seqs(args.seqs, args.genomes, args.outdir, args.minident, args.threads)
+    process_results(args.outdir)
+    print(Fore.CYAN + "Done.")
+    return 0
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+   sys.exit(main())
+