# Installer sylph avec Homebrew

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de sylph pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:sylph
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install sylph
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:sylph
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.9.0
- **Résumé source:** Ultrafast taxonomic profiling and genome querying for metagenomic samples
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/bluenote-1577/sylph>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/bluenote-1577/sylph>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- sylph (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 0.9.0
## Historique du projet et usages

sylph is a Rust command-line tool for fast metagenomic profiling and containment average nucleotide identity querying from shotgun sequencing samples. It is packaged for scientists who want a small executable that can query or profile large genome databases quickly from the shell.

### Historique du projet

The official documentation describes sylph as a program for metagenomic profiling and containment ANI querying. Its core method uses k-mer containment with a statistical technique for low-coverage genomes, and the documentation cites the 2024 Nature Biotechnology paper by Jim Shaw and Yun William Yu.

### Historique d'adoption

The upstream README and documentation document installation through Bioconda, source builds with Rust/Cargo, and prebuilt x86-64 Linux binaries; the input package facts show Homebrew packaging as well. That mix reflects a bioinformatics CLI moving through both scientific package channels and general-purpose developer package managers.

### Modes d'utilisation

Common usage is to run sylph profile against a prebuilt or custom database, such as GTDB, with paired-end or single-end FASTQ files, or to run ANI querying to test whether a sample contains a genome related to a queried reference. The docs emphasize fast multi-sample profiling, custom databases, prebuilt databases, and support for short or long reads.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

Package nerds care because sylph is a modern scientific CLI distributed as a Rust binary: it needs reproducible installation, large external databases, predictable CPU/RAM behavior, and channels such as Bioconda and Homebrew to reach different user communities.

### Chronologie

- 2024: Official documentation cites the sylph Nature Biotechnology paper by Jim Shaw and Yun William Yu.
- Current README era: The GitHub README says all documentation moved to sylph-docs.github.io.
- Homebrew packaging: The input package facts identify sylph as a Homebrew formula exposing the sylph executable.

### Related projects

- Related tools and references named by the official docs include Kraken, MetaPhlAn, mOTUs, GTDB databases, Bioconda, Rust/Cargo, and sylph-tax.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/bluenote-1577/sylph>
- <https://github.com/bluenote-1577/sylph/blob/main/README.md>
- <https://sylph-docs.github.io/>
- source_facts.executables
- source_facts.package-manager


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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