# cutadapt を Homebrew, apt でインストール

cutadapt のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。

## インストール

```sh
sudo av install brew:cutadapt
```

追加のインストールコマンド:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install cutadapt
```

  証拠: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install cutadapt
```

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

## パッケージ情報

- **パッケージキー:** brew:cutadapt
- **パッケージマネージャ:** Homebrew
- **バージョン:** 5.2
- **ソース概要:** Removes adapter sequences from sequencing reads
- **ホームページ:** <https://cutadapt.readthedocs.io>
- **リポジトリ:** <https://github.com/marcelm/cutadapt>
- **最終更新:** 2026-05-04T20:29:09Z
- **生成日時:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 実行可能ファイル

- cutadapt (エイリアス)

## インストール挙動

- Bottle: 利用不可

## バージョンと鮮度

- ページ生成日: 2026-08-03
- マネージャ版: 5.2
## プロジェクトの歴史と使われ方

Cutadapt is a bioinformatics command-line tool for finding and removing adapter sequences, primers, poly-A tails, and other unwanted sequence from high-throughput sequencing reads. Its documentation presents trimming as a routine cleanup step for small-RNA, amplicon, and other sequencing workflows.

### プロジェクトの歴史

The project documentation says Cutadapt development began at TU Dortmund University in Prof. Sven Rahmann's group and is now developed within NBIS, the National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden. The documentation copyright begins in 2010, and the changelog records early public releases starting with v0.1 in September 2010.

### 採用の歴史

Cutadapt became part of the standard sequencing-preprocessing toolbox because it solves a common, format-heavy cleanup problem with a scriptable CLI. The official README links to PyPI, source code, documentation, and a Galaxy platform wrapper, and its badges point to Python packaging and Bioconda distribution.

### 使われ方

The tool is normally used in pipelines before alignment or downstream analysis: users provide FASTQ/FASTA reads and adapter or primer patterns, then ask Cutadapt to trim, filter, modify, demultiplex, and report results. Its changelog shows long-running attention to paired-end reads, JSON reports, demultiplexing, compression speed, Python version support, and reproducible output.

### パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

Cutadapt is package-manager significant because it bridges Python packaging, bioinformatics channels, and Unix CLI workflows. It is both a Python package and a command-line executable, with stable documentation, a citation, and a long changelog that makes downstream packaging and reproducibility work tractable.

### タイムライン

- 2010: v0.1 appears in the official changelog.
- 2011: v1.0 released, according to the changelog.
- 2012: Public GitHub repository created.
- 2019: v2.0 released with documented backward-incompatible changes.
- 2024: v5.0 released with demultiplexing behavior changes and performance-related defaults.
- 2025: v5.2 documented in the stable changelog.

### Related projects

- The official README links Cutadapt to PyPI, Bioconda packaging, Galaxy's tools-iuc wrapper, and its Read the Docs documentation.

### ソース

- <https://cutadapt.readthedocs.io/>
- <https://cutadapt.readthedocs.io/en/stable/changes.html>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marcelm/cutadapt/main/README.rst>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/marcelm/cutadapt>


## セキュリティノート

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- **Geiger リスク:** グリーン / 低
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## 他のパッケージマネージャ記録

- Debian apt - cutadapt - 4.7-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: cutadapt from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Clean biological sequences from high-throughput sequencing reads | https://cutadapt.readthedocs.io/
- Ubuntu apt - cutadapt - 4.4-1build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: cutadapt from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Clean biological sequences from high-throughput sequencing reads | https://cutadapt.readthedocs.io/


## Combined YAML source

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


## ソース

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