Support for Droplet-Utils in Apple Silicon (ARM64)

[mari-ga]

Hi!

First of all, thank you very much for this wonderful tool. I was wondering if it is planned to add support for ARM64 processors for the conda package. Currently, the installation attempt for this package results in this error:

conda create -n dropletutils -c bioconda bioconductor-biobase
#conda answer on terminal:
Channels:
 - bioconda
 - defaults
 - conda-forge
Platform: osx-arm64
Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
Solving environment: failed

PackagesNotFoundError: The following packages are not available from current channels:

  - bioconductor-biobase

Current channels:

  - https://conda.anaconda.org/bioconda
  - defaults
  - https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge

To search for alternate channels that may provide the conda package you're
looking for, navigate to

    https://anaconda.org

and use the search bar at the top of the page.

Me and many people using this great package on Apple Silicon would be very grateful.

Thank you very much in advance!

[jonathangriffiths]

Hi,

Thanks for getting in touch.

There are a couple of challenges I have in answering this:

1. I don't control how conda manages Bioconductor packages - if you tried to install DropletUtils using the BiocManager framework (BiocManager::install("DropletUtils")), I'd wager it will install fine on Apple Silicon
2. The error message you are getting is about bioconductor-biobase - I don't have anything to do with Biobase, I'm afraid, so I am doubly-limited on resolving that for you

Jonny

[mari-ga]

Hi, thank you very much for your answer. I actually got it working on conda by following this tutorial for the use of different distributions of conda for Apple Silicon, here:Tutorial for Conda X86_64 on Apple Silicon Having the version of conda for x86_64 running on Apple Silicon makes it possible to run this tool from conda. It is probably a long road, but I leave it here, just in case it is useful for someone with this kind of problem :)

[LTLA]

FWIW BioC is close to getting binaries built for Arm Macs, I think DropletUtils had a successful build already (see here) but I think they're just waiting on other packages before announcing its availability.