# fastq-tools mit Homebrew installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:fastq-tools
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install fastq-tools
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:fastq-tools
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.8.3
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Small utilities for working with fastq sequence files
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/dcjones/fastq-tools>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/dcjones/fastq-tools>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- fastq-grep (Alias)
- fastq-kmers (Alias)
- fastq-match (Alias)
- fastq-qscale (Alias)
- fastq-qual (Alias)
- fastq-qualadj (Alias)
- fastq-sample (Alias)
- fastq-sort (Alias)
- fastq-uniq (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.8.3
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

fastq-tools is a compact suite of Unix-style utilities for FASTQ sequencing files, including tools for sorting, grepping, k-mer counting, local sequence matching, quality-score tabulation and adjustment, sampling, and duplicate counting.

### Projektgeschichte

Daniel C. Jones published fastq-tools under an MIT-style license in 2011. The README presents it as a collection of small and efficient programs for common tasks with high-throughput sequencing data in FASTQ format.

The package follows the older autotools-era scientific CLI model: generated configure scripts for release tarballs, autogen.sh for git checkouts, and a short dependency list of PCRE and zlib. The GitHub repository remained active through later tags, with v0.8.3 listed among its published tags.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

fastq-tools is niche compared with later all-in-one preprocessors, but it fills a durable command-line niche for people who want small composable tools over a single workflow application. Its Homebrew packaging reflects that Unix-toolbox use case.

### Wie es verwendet wird

The suite works with ordinary and gzipped FASTQ files. Users pick individual commands such as fastq-sort, fastq-grep, fastq-kmers, fastq-sample, fastq-uniq, and fastq-qual rather than configuring a long-running application.

No persistent configuration or credentials file is documented; behavior is driven by command-line options and the input FASTQ streams or files.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

fastq-tools is significant as a small-binary, many-command package: it packages the FASTQ format as a shell-friendly toolkit. That makes it closer to classic text-processing utilities than to GUI or report-heavy bioinformatics applications.

### Zeitleiste

- 2011: The GitHub repository is created and the README copyright names Daniel C. Jones.
- 2011: The project is released as a set of small FASTQ utilities.
- 2022: The repository shows later maintenance activity.
- 2022: v0.8.3 is listed among repository tags.

### Related projects

- fastq-tools complements larger FASTQ quality-control and preprocessing tools by providing focused filters and counters for shell pipelines.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/dcjones/fastq-tools>
- <https://github.com/dcjones/fastq-tools#readme>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/dcjones/fastq-tools/tags>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

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


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- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph