Availability via conda

[jacodela]

famsa is used by anvio, an analysis and visualization suite for metagenomics, but as far as I can tell, famsa isn't available from conda, which difficults the package's installation and management. Are you planning (or currently working on) submitting famsa to Conda?

[agudys]

Hello,
Actually, we haven't thought about submitting FAMSA to Conda. Do you think it's worth the effort to do so? I always thought Conda was mainly for Python packages.

[jacodela]

Thanks for your answer! I'm mainly interested in a conda submission because my research group uses conda for installing and managing (almost) all of our bioinformatics software, which is not limited to python packages, but also includes unix-based software (e.g seqtk) and R packages (e.g Phyloseq). In addition, submitting it to conda can help users actually use famsa in a reproducible software environment and to easily integrate it to analysis pipelines.

[agudys]

Then I guess we need to take a closer look on that and try to submit the software to Conda. I'll let you know!

[milot-mirdita]

I took the liberty of packaging famsa in conda (bioconda/bioconda-recipes#19529), since we want to use in a pipeline. I hope that's okay. Could you take a look?

[agudys]

@milot-mirdita
Sorry for not responding you earlier. Thank you very much for your time and effort to integrate FAMSA in bioconda! We really appreciate!