Conda (package manager)

Conda is an open source,cross-platform, language-agnosticpackage manager and environment management system that installs, runs, and updates packages and their dependencies. Conda allows users to easily

Conda is written in the Python programming language, but can manage projects containing code written in other languages (e.g., R), including multi-language projects. Conda can install the Python programming language, while similar Python-based cross-platform package managers (such as wheel or pip) cannot.

Continuum Analytics maintains Conda (among other open source tools), which it releases under the Berkeley Software Distribution License.

A popular Conda channel for bioinformatics software is Bioconda, which provides multiple software distributions for computational biology.

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