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nextstrain / nextclade

Viral genome alignment, mutation calling, clade assignment, quality checks and phylogenetic placement
https://clades.nextstrain.org
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[nextalign] Install on MacOS #315

Closed ivan-aksamentov closed 3 years ago

ivan-aksamentov commented 3 years ago

See https://github.com/neherlab/nextalign/issues/24

iskandr commented 3 years ago

I was about to try out nextalign but saw this issue, curious if it's resolved. Also, any chance it's installable via either brew or bioconda?

ivan-aksamentov commented 3 years ago

Hi Alex @iskandr,

The issue mentioned was primarily about running local build on Mac, for development purposes (development in docker was always available as an alternative). It was resolved, and one should be able to build Nextalign on Mac if needed, following the developer's guide.

However, if you are just interested in using Nextalign, rather than developing it, it's much easier to just download the prebuilt binaries: https://github.com/nextstrain/nextclade/releases

I am not sure it's worth spending efforts on packaging, as Nextalign is a static, self-contained executable, a single-file download. User's guide contains curl one-liners for quick installation: https://github.com/nextstrain/nextclade/tree/master/packages/nextalign_cli#%EF%B8%8F-download-from-command-line

Will that work for you?

We might consider packaging (I created an issue https://github.com/nextstrain/nextclade/issues/357), but probably not at this time, as there are more important problems to resolve currently. However, contributions are very welcome!

I will close this as resolved, but feel free to open new issues if there are more questions, ideas, bugs to report etc.