.. _`kraken`:

kraken
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Kraken is a system for assigning taxonomic labels to short DNA sequences, usually obtained through metagenomic studies.

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Home     http://ccb.jhu.edu/software/kraken/
Versions 0.10.5beta
License  GPLv3
Recipe   https://github.com/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/tree/master/recipes/kraken
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Installation
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.. highlight: bash

With an activated Bioconda channel (see :ref:`setup`), install with::

   conda install kraken

and update with::

   conda update kraken