# fastani mit Homebrew, apt installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für fastani in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:fastani
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install fastani
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install fastani
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: fastani from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:fastani
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.34
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Fast whole-genome similarity (ANI) estimation
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/ParBLiSS/FastANI>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/ParBLiSS/FastANI>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-25T01:07:37Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- fastANI (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.34
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

FastANI is a command-line bioinformatics tool for rapidly estimating average nucleotide identity between complete or draft microbial genomes. It replaces expensive all-against-all alignments with approximate sequence mapping, making ANI practical for large genome collections.

### Projektgeschichte

The official FastANI repository was created in 2017. FastANI uses Mashmap as a MinHash-based sequence mapping engine and follows the broad workflow of earlier ANI methods while avoiding their expensive sequence-alignment step.

The associated 2018 Nature Communications paper introduced FastANI as a scalable ANI method and used it to analyze more than 90,000 prokaryotic genomes. The study reported accuracy comparable to alignment-based ANI methods in the intended similarity range with speedups of two to three orders of magnitude.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

FastANI became a practical command-line component in microbial genomics because it accepts both complete and draft assemblies and supports one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many comparisons. The supplied package metadata shows distribution through Homebrew, Debian, and Ubuntu, complementing upstream source builds and release binaries.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users provide a query genome and reference genome, or text files listing multiple query and reference assemblies. FastANI writes tab-delimited ANI results and can optionally generate a lower-triangular PHYLIP-style matrix.

The official README recommends checking assembly quality and notes that pairs far below roughly 80 percent ANI are outside FastANI's useful nucleotide-level range. It also documents multi-threading and a small query/reference asymmetry in pairwise estimates.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

FastANI matters to package users because it turns a computationally expensive comparative-genomics method into a scriptable executable suitable for large batches. Its small CLI surface, release binaries, and Linux and macOS package availability make it easy to place inside reproducible genome-classification pipelines.

### Zeitleiste

- 2017: The official FastANI GitHub repository was created.
- 2018: The FastANI method and analysis of more than 90,000 prokaryotic genomes were published in Nature Communications.
- 2023: FastANI v1.34 was published through the official GitHub releases feed.

### Related projects

- Mashmap is the approximate mapping engine used by FastANI.
- Mash is another MinHash-based genome-distance tool discussed in the FastANI paper, while BLAST-based ANI solvers are the slower alignment-based comparison point.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/ParBLiSS/FastANI>
- <https://github.com/ParBLiSS/FastANI/releases>
- <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07641-9>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Sicherheitshinweise

Für fastani wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.


## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - fastani - 1.33-3+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: fastani from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Fast alignment-free computation of whole-genome Average Nucleotide Identity | https://github.com/ParBLiSS/FastANI
- Ubuntu apt - fastani - 1.33-3: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: fastani from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Fast alignment-free computation of whole-genome Average Nucleotide Identity | https://github.com/ParBLiSS/FastANI


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/fastani.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/fastani.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
