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Welcome to the Lambda documention!

About

• Frequently Asked Questions and answers!
• The most important changes between lambda1 (0.9.0 – 1.1) and lambda2 (1.9.0 – 2.0.1).
• The most important changes between lambda2 (1.9.0 – 2.0.1) and lambda3 (>= 3.0.0).
• The full Changelog of all versions.
• The Privacy policy.

Install Guide

• Binary Packages, the recommended way to install.
• Guide for building from source to get the newest changes and/or fine-tune for your system.

Usage Guide

• Examples to get you started with Lambda.
• Pre-built indexes of popular databases.
• Output Format documentation and tuning guide.
  • BLAST
  • SAMTOOLS
• Documentation on Lambda's flags for use in Taxonomic Workflows.

Staying up to date

There is a lambda-users mailinglist which is used to inform about new versions. If you would like to subscribe just click the link and enter your address or contact me (see below). The traffic really is very low, you will receive on average less then one e-mail per month.