The detailed installation instructions and requirements are listed in the manual. However, in most cases, QUAST works fine straight out of the box on any Linux (64-bit) or macOS machine. So, we just provide here the main ways of getting the QUAST package. If you encourage any problems with installation, please check out our manual and GitHub issue tracker. Do not hesitate to write us if you cannot solve the issue yourself.

Getting stable release package

The current stable release is v5.3.0. The package includes everything needed for running QUAST, MetaQUAST, QUAST-LG, and Icarus. After downloading the tar.gz package, just unpack it with tar -xzf quast-<VERSION>.tar.gz and start using QUAST on your data or check the installation with quast.py --test.

Installation via package managers

The fully-functional QUAST toolkit is available in popular package managers, namely pip, Brewsci/bio, and Bioconda. To install it from there, make sure that the corresponding package manager is properly installed and configured on your machine and execute one of the following commands, respectively:

            pip install quast
            brew install quast
            conda install -c bioconda quast

Getting the cutting edge version

You can enjoy the latest development version of QUAST by clonning our GitHub repository:

            git clone git@github.com:ablab/quast.git

Note that this version may be unstable, please report any bugs to our GitHub issue tracker. Also note that QUAST GitHub repository is rather large, so the initial clonning may take some time.

Access to previous releases

All QUAST releases are available on SourceForge and starting from v4.0 on GitHub, too.