# minimap2 mit Homebrew, apt, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für minimap2 in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:minimap2
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install minimap2
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install libminimap2-dev
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: libminimap2-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#minimap2
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mi/minimap2/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:minimap2
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/minimap2>
- **Version:** 2.31
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences
- **Homepage:** <https://lh3.github.io/minimap2>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/lh3/minimap2>
- **Upstream-Dokumentation:** <https://lh3.github.io/minimap2/minimap2.html>
- **Lizenz:** MIT
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://github.com/lh3/minimap2/archive/refs/tags/v2.31.tar.gz>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-05-20T00:41:23Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## Executables

- minimap2 (cli)
- sdust (cli)
- minimap2 (Alias)
- sdust (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-07-08
- Manager-Version: 2.31
- Manager aktualisiert: 2026-05-20
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/lh3/minimap2
- neueste erkannte Version: v2.31 (aktuell)
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

minimap2 is Heng Li's successor to the original minimap, designed for the alignment problems created by long-read sequencing and large genomic assemblies. The 2017 preprint and 2018 Bioinformatics paper present it as a general-purpose pairwise aligner for DNA and long mRNA sequences, motivated by ultra-long reads, full-length transcript reads, and contigs that older aligners could not process efficiently at scale.

### Projektgeschichte

Its major technical contribution is being broad without being slow. The paper describes minimap2 as usable for short reads, assembly contigs, noisy long genomic reads, RNA-seq reads, read overlap detection, and full-genome alignment. The implementation combines fast chaining with base-level alignment improvements, including Suzuki-Kasahara dynamic programming, to make long-read and splice-aware alignment practical. The project README highlights the same practical presets: PacBio and Oxford Nanopore genomic reads, Iso-Seq and Nanopore RNA/cDNA alignment, Illumina reads, assembly-to-assembly comparison, and related-species genome alignment.

### Wie es verwendet wird

minimap2 became a core bioinformatics command-line tool because long-read sequencing workflows needed one aligner that could cover many data types. It is invoked directly in pipelines and through higher-level platforms, producing SAM or PAF output for downstream tools such as samtools, variant callers, assemblers, and transcript analysis software. In package managers it sits in the genomics CLI niche beside aligners such as BWA-MEM, Bowtie2, BLASR, NGMLR, and GMAP, with its reputation tied to speed, accuracy, and long-read versatility.

### Quellen

- <https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/34/18/3094/4994778>
- <https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.01492>
- <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2017-11-04minimap2/>
- <https://github.com/lh3/minimap2>


## Sicherheitshinweise

Für minimap2 wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.


## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** minimap2
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - libminimap2-dev - 2.27+dfsg-1+b3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libminimap2-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | development headers for libminimap | https://github.com/lh3/minimap2
- Debian apt - minimap2 - 2.27+dfsg-1+b3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: minimap2 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences | https://github.com/lh3/minimap2
- Debian apt - python3-mappy - 2.27+dfsg-1+b3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: python3-mappy from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Python3 interface minimap2 | https://github.com/lh3/minimap2
- Nix - minimap2: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mi/minimap2/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - libminimap2-dev - 2.26+dfsg-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libminimap2-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | development headers for libminimap | https://github.com/lh3/minimap2
- Ubuntu apt - minimap2 - 2.26+dfsg-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: minimap2 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences | https://github.com/lh3/minimap2
- Ubuntu apt - python3-mappy - 2.26+dfsg-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: python3-mappy from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Python3 interface minimap2 | https://github.com/lh3/minimap2


## Verwandte Links

- [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata.
- [Scientific computing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/scientific-computing-tools/) - Matched scientific computing metadata.
- [abpoa](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/abpoa/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, science, sequence-alignment.
- [diamond](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/diamond/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, science, sequence-alignment.
- [lastz](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/lastz/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, dna, genomics, science.
- [mafft](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/mafft/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, science, sequence-alignment.
- [mummer](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/mummer/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, dna, genomics, science.
- [bbtools](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/bbtools/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, dna, genomics, science.
- [blast](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/blast/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, genomics, science, sequence-alignment.
- [breseq](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/breseq/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, dna, genomics, science.
- [miniprot](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/miniprot/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: alignment, bioinformatics, cli, genomics, science.
- [bwa](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/bwa/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: aligner, alignment, bioinformatics, cli, dna.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/minimap2.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/minimap2.yml)


## Quellen

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph