Command-line tool

sylph

brew/sylph

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Ultrafast taxonomic profiling and genome querying for metagenomic samples

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install sylph

Linux

brew install sylph

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