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ZipStrain is a toolkit for strain-level metagenomic profiling and comparison. It is the spiritual successor to InStrain but with literally orders of magnitude increases in speed while using substantially less RAM.

Source code is available on GitHub

Publication is available on bioRxiv

See links to the left for installation instructions and tutorials

Bugs reports and feature requests can be submitted through GitHub

ZipStrain was developed by Parsa Ghadermazi in the Olm Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder.