If using a Mac, the easiest way to download and install kallisto is via brew with the commands:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew install kallisto

Alternatively, with conda installed and the bioconda channel activated, kallisto can be installed with:

conda install kallisto

The kallisto bioconda installation will work with 64 bit linux or Mac OS. More details are available at the kallisto bioconda page.

kllisto can also be installed on FreeBSD via the FreeBSD ports system using

pkg install kallisto

kallisto binaries for Mac OS X, NetBSD, RHEL/CentOS and SmartOS can be installed on most POSIX platforms using pkgsrc:

pkgin install kallisto

For other operating systems download executables or source from the links below and follow the provided instructions. Note that prebuilt kallisto indices from the human transcriptome and many model organism transcriptomes are available from the kallisto transcriptome indices page.

Releases

The kallisto GitHub repository is here.

Version Date
Release notes: v0.46.1 Mac Linux Windows Rock64 Source
Release notes: v0.46.0 Mac Linux Windows Rock64 Source
Release notes: v0.45.0 Mac Linux Windows Rock64 Source
Release notes: v0.44.0 Mac Linux Windows Rock64 Source
Release notes: v0.43.1 Mac Linux Windows Source
Release notes: v0.43.0 Mac Linux Windows Source
Release notes: v0.42.5 Mac Linux Source
Release notes: v0.42.4 Mac Linux Source
Release notes: v0.42.3 Mac Linux Source
Release notes: v0.42.2.1 Mac Linux Source
Release notes: v0.42.2 Mac Source
Release notes: v0.42.1 Mac Linux Source
Release notes: v0.42 Mac Linux Source

License

kallisto is distributed under the BSD 2-clause “Simplified” License:

BSD 2-Clause License

Copyright (c) 2017, Nicolas Bray, Harold Pimentel, Páll Melsted and Lior Pachter
All rights reserved.

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