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Install fastani with Homebrew, apt
Fast whole-genome similarity (ANI) estimation. Version 1.34 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-25. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install fastani.
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Linux
Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install fastaniDebian stable package indexes · fastani · source: deb.debian.org
overview
Package summary
Fast whole-genome similarity (ANI) estimation
Project links
Commands and aliases
- fastANI
history
Project history and usage
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.
Project history
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.
Adoption history
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.
How it is used
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.
Why package nerds care
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.
Timeline
- 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.
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security posture
No protected-tool coverage found yet
No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for fastani. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
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executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
fastANI | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
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page generated2026-08-03
manager version1.34
manager updated2026-07-25
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:fastani |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.34 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/ParBLiSS/FastANI |
| Repository | https://github.com/ParBLiSS/FastANI |
| Last updated | 2026-07-25T01:07:37Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
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Debian apt95%
fastani 1.33-3+b1
Fast alignment-free computation of whole-genome Average Nucleotide Identity
https://github.com/ParBLiSS/FastANI
sudo apt install fastani- Section: science
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: fastani
- 6 dependencies
- 1 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Fastani
Ubuntu apt95%
fastani 1.33-3
Fast alignment-free computation of whole-genome Average Nucleotide Identity
https://github.com/ParBLiSS/FastANI
sudo apt install fastani- Section: universe/science
- Architecture: amd64
- 6 dependencies
- 1 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Fastani
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