To get help on a particular command, just call it without args.
```
Below package managers Conda, GNU Guix, Debian and Homebrew also
provide recent binary installs for Linux. For MacOS you may use Conda
or Homebrew.
## Bioconda install
[](https://anaconda.org/bioconda/sambamba)
Ther should be binary downloads for Linux and MacOS.
With Conda use the [`bioconda`](https://bioconda.github.io/) channel.
## GNU Guix install
A [GNU Guix package](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/s.html) for sambamba is available. The development version is packaged [here](https://gitlab.com/genenetwork/guix-bioinformatics/blob/master/gn/packages/sambamba.scm).
A reproducible [GNU Guix package](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/s.html) for sambamba is available. The development version is packaged [here](https://gitlab.com/genenetwork/guix-bioinformatics/blob/master/gn/packages/sambamba.scm).
## Debian GNU/Linux install
Debian: see [Debian packages](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/sambamba).
Sambamba is distributed under GNU Public License v2+.
Sambamba is generously distributed under GNU Public License v2+.
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# Credit
If you are using Sambamba in your research and want to support future
work on Sambamba, please cite the following publication:
Citations are the bread and butter of Science. If you are using
Sambamba in your research and want to support our future work on
Sambamba, please cite the following publication:
A. Tarasov, A. J. Vilella, E. Cuppen, I. J. Nijman, and P. Prins. [Sambamba: fast processing of NGS alignment formats](https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btv098). Bioinformatics, 2015.