# Installer sylph avec Homebrew

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de sylph pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:sylph
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install sylph
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:sylph
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Page du gestionnaire de paquets:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/sylph>
- **Version:** 0.9.0
- **Résumé source:** Ultrafast taxonomic profiling and genome querying for metagenomic samples
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/bluenote-1577/sylph>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/bluenote-1577/sylph>
- **Docs amont:** <https://github.com/bluenote-1577/sylph/blob/main/README.md>
- **Licence:** MIT
- **Archive source:** <https://github.com/bluenote-1577/sylph/archive/refs/tags/v0.9.0.tar.gz>
- **Généré:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## exécutables

- sylph (cli)
- sylph (alias)

## Dépendances de compilation

- cmake
- rust

## Comportement d'installation

- hook post-installation: non défini
- Bouteille: disponible sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-07-08
- version du gestionnaire: 0.9.0
- données locales: OK
- dépôt amont: https://github.com/bluenote-1577/sylph
- dernière version détectée: v0.9.0 (à jour)
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
## Historique du projet et usages

sylph is a Rust command-line tool for fast metagenomic profiling and containment average nucleotide identity querying from shotgun sequencing samples. It is packaged for scientists who want a small executable that can query or profile large genome databases quickly from the shell.

### Historique du projet

The official documentation describes sylph as a program for metagenomic profiling and containment ANI querying. Its core method uses k-mer containment with a statistical technique for low-coverage genomes, and the documentation cites the 2024 Nature Biotechnology paper by Jim Shaw and Yun William Yu.

### Historique d'adoption

The upstream README and documentation document installation through Bioconda, source builds with Rust/Cargo, and prebuilt x86-64 Linux binaries; the input package facts show Homebrew packaging as well. That mix reflects a bioinformatics CLI moving through both scientific package channels and general-purpose developer package managers.

### Modes d'utilisation

Common usage is to run sylph profile against a prebuilt or custom database, such as GTDB, with paired-end or single-end FASTQ files, or to run ANI querying to test whether a sample contains a genome related to a queried reference. The docs emphasize fast multi-sample profiling, custom databases, prebuilt databases, and support for short or long reads.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

Package nerds care because sylph is a modern scientific CLI distributed as a Rust binary: it needs reproducible installation, large external databases, predictable CPU/RAM behavior, and channels such as Bioconda and Homebrew to reach different user communities.

### Chronologie

- 2024: Official documentation cites the sylph Nature Biotechnology paper by Jim Shaw and Yun William Yu.
- Current README era: The GitHub README says all documentation moved to sylph-docs.github.io.
- Homebrew packaging: The input package facts identify sylph as a Homebrew formula exposing the sylph executable.

### Related projects

- Related tools and references named by the official docs include Kraken, MetaPhlAn, mOTUs, GTDB databases, Bioconda, Rust/Cargo, and sylph-tax.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/bluenote-1577/sylph>
- <https://github.com/bluenote-1577/sylph/blob/main/README.md>
- <https://sylph-docs.github.io/>
- source_facts.executables
- source_facts.package-manager


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Détails de la base source

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** sylph
- **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


## Liens liés

- [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata.
- [Scientific computing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/scientific-computing-tools/) - Matched scientific computing metadata.
- [cmake](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/cmake/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [rust](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/rust/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [kraken2](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/kraken2/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, metagenomics, science.
- [mmseqs2](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/mmseqs2/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, metagenomics, science.
- [skani](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/skani/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, metagenomics, science.
- [spades](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/spades/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, metagenomics, science.
- [vsearch](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/vsearch/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, metagenomics, science.
- [abpoa](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/abpoa/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, science.
- [abricate](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/abricate/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, science.
- [abyss](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/abyss/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, science.

## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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