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Installation

Bioconda

The released binary is on Bioconda and is the quickest way in.

conda install -c bioconda fstic

mamba install -c bioconda fstic

Check it landed:

fstic --version

From source

Fstic is a single Rust binary with no system dependencies beyond a toolchain.

git clone https://github.com/PathoGenOmics-Lab/fstic.git
cd fstic
cargo build --release

The binary is at target/release/fstic. Put it somewhere on your PATH:

install -m 755 target/release/fstic ~/.local/bin/

Rust version

The crate uses the 2021 edition and Option::is_none_or, so it needs Rust 1.82 or newer. rustup update stable if cargo build complains about an unstable method.

Running the test suite

Worth doing once after building from source, particularly on an unusual platform, since a few of the tests pin exact numeric output.

cargo test

That covers the eight estimators against hand-computed values, the VCF and table readers, the FASTA reader, output formatting, and a check that results do not change with the thread count.