Biofilter-LOKI 3.0.0 is a lightweight, command-line–driven knowledge base builder designed to support BioBin and other legacy Biofilter workflows.
This version preserves the traditional LOKI architecture, while modernizing the codebase and deployment for current environments.

Biofilter-LOKI 3.0.0 was built to:

• Maintain full compatibility with BioBin
• Preserve the classic LOKI data model
• Provide a simple CLI-based workflow
• Support HPC module deployments
• Enable rapid database builds for analysis pipelines

LOKI (Library Of Knowledge Integration) is the knowledge ingestion engine behind Biofilter.
It builds a SQLite knowledge database by integrating multiple biological data sources, such as:

• SNP ↔ Gene
• Gene ↔ Pathway
• Gene ↔ Ontology
• Identifier mappings across databases

┌──────────────┐
│   Biofilter  │  ← primary CLI
└──────────────┘
        │
        ▼
┌─────────────────────┐
│ SQLite Knowledge DB │
│    (LOKI schema)    │
└─────────────────────┘
        ▲
        │
┌──────────────┐
│  loki-build  │  ← ingestion engine
└──────────────┘
        ▲
        │
 External Sources

Key characteristics:

• SQLite backend
• Immutable batch loads
• No entity-level curation
• Optimized for downstream queries

Depending on build options, Biofilter-LOKI can ingest:

• dbSNP
• Entrez Gene
• Gene Ontology (GO)
• Pathways (KEGG / Reactome, if enabled)
• Chain files (genome build liftover)
• Identifier mappings

The available sources depend on how the package was built and deployed.

pip install biofilter-loki

Basic example:

loki-build \
  --knowledge loki.db \
  --load dbsnp entrez go

Update existing database:

loki-build \
  --knowledge loki.db \
  --update

Build from an archive:

loki-build \
  --from-archive loki_sources.tar.gz \
  --knowledge loki.db

Run loki-build --help for full details.

Once a LOKI knowledge database has been built, the biofilter command can be used to query and inspect its contents.

Check version information:

biofilter --version

Display general help and available subcommands:

biofilter --help

List available data sources loaded into the database:

biofilter \
  --knowledge loki.db \
  --snp-file snps.txt \
  --source kegg \
  --annotate position_label snp position gene upstream downstream \
  --report-invalid-input \
  --report-configuration \
  --overwrite \
  --prefix outcomes_prefix \
  --ucsc-build-version 19 \

Where snps.txt contains one rsID per line.

Note: Available subcommands depend on which data sourcesmwere loaded during database construction.

• 📘 User Manual (PDF)
  Biofilter Manual — Version 3.0.0

Developed and maintained by the Ritchie Lab University of Pennsylvania

Distributed under the original Biofilter license. See LICENSE file for details.