# Install dxpy with Homebrew

DNAnexus toolkit utilities and platform API bindings for Python. Version 0.411.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-29.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:dxpy
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install dxpy
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:dxpy
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.411.0
- **Source summary:** DNAnexus toolkit utilities and platform API bindings for Python
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/dnanexus/dx-toolkit>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-29T00:42:36Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- dx-app-wizard (alias)
- dx-build-app (alias)
- dx-build-applet (alias)
- dx-clone-asset (alias)
- dx-docker (alias)
- dx-download-all-inputs (alias)
- dx-fetch-bundled-depends (alias)
- dx-generate-dxapp (alias)
- dx-jobutil-add-output (alias)
- dx-jobutil-dxlink (alias)
- dx-jobutil-get-identity-token (alias)
- dx-jobutil-new-job (alias)
- dx-jobutil-parse-link (alias)
- dx-jobutil-report-error (alias)
- dx-log-stream (alias)
- dx-mount-all-inputs (alias)
- dx-notebook-reconnect (alias)
- dx-print-bash-vars (alias)
- dx-upload-all-outputs (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.411.0
## Project history and usage

dxpy is the Python binding layer and command-line toolkit for the DNAnexus platform. The official Read the Docs page describes dxpy as Python bindings for interacting with the DNAnexus Platform API, both inside the DNAnexus execution environment and from external scripts.

### Project history

The official dx-toolkit git history begins with imported history in 2011 and early repository reorganization in March 2012. Official tags show v0.0.1 on 2012-08-09 and a long continuous release stream through v0.410.0 in June 2026.

### Adoption history

Unlike general-purpose Unix tools, dxpy adoption follows the DNAnexus platform itself: researchers and bioinformatics engineers use it to script platform objects, projects, files, apps, workflows, jobs, and API calls. The batch input exposes this as a Homebrew package with many dx-* executables rather than just a Python library.

### How it is used

The official docs organize dxpy around Pythonic bindings, low-level API wrappers, object handlers, projects, records, files, genomic tables, applets, apps, workflows, jobs, search, app building, utilities, and exceptions. In practice the packaged toolkit is used for DNAnexus login/configuration, data movement, applet/app development, job utilities, logging, Docker/Nextflow helper workflows, and scripted platform automation.

### Why package nerds care

dxpy is significant as a packaged scientific-platform SDK: it turns a hosted genomics and biomedical analysis platform into reproducible shell and Python workflows. For package managers, it is a reminder that many science packages are not just libraries but operational CLIs with credentials, cloud objects, and platform-specific execution assumptions.

### Timeline

- 2011: Official git history begins with imported repository history.
- 2012: v0.0.1 tagged and DNAnexus Python docs carry 2012-2013 copyright.
- 2020: v0.300.0 tagged.
- 2023: v0.350.0 tagged.
- 2025: v0.400.0 tagged.
- 2026: v0.410.0 appears in the official changelog and tag list.

### Related projects

- dxpy is part of DNAnexus dx-toolkit alongside the dx command family, DNAnexus API documentation, platform documentation, app builders, job utilities, Docker helpers, and Nextflow-related tooling referenced in recent changelog entries.

### Sources

- <https://dxpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest>
- <https://github.com/dnanexus/dx-toolkit>
- <https://github.com/dnanexus/dx-toolkit/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md>
- <https://documentation.dnanexus.com/>


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for dxpy. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.



## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.dnanexus_config/environment.json

## Credential files

- Unix: ~/.dnanexus_config/environment.json

## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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