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Jvarkit

Java utilities for Bioinformatics

From lindenb·Updated June 8, 2026·View on GitHub·

Documentation is available at: [https://jvarkit.readthedocs.io/](https://jvarkit.readthedocs.io/) The project is written primarily in Java, distributed under the Other license, first published in 2013. Key topics include: bioinformatics, biology, genomics, java, next-generation-sequencing.

Latest release: v2026.04.30
April 30, 2026View Changelog →

JVARKIT

Java utilities for Bioinformatics

Last commit

in conda in nf-core

Documentation

Documentation is available at: https://jvarkit.readthedocs.io/

Download

A pre-compiled jar is available at https://uncloud.univ-nantes.fr/index.php/s/4sL77oWR2BFzSBH .

Compilation

Since 2023, most tools (but not all) are now packaged into one application jvarkit.jar. Tools that were executed like java -jar toolname.jar are now executed as java -jar jvarkit.jar toolname. The documentation is not always up to date on this point.

See the documentation at https://jvarkit.readthedocs.io/.

Conda / Bioconda

A conda package created by DrYak is available at https://bioconda.github.io/recipes/jvarkit/README.html

Containers

jvarkit is available as a Singularity container under https://depot.galaxyproject.org/singularity/ .
GUI/Swing applications might not work.

Author

Pierre Lindenbaum PhD

@yokofakun

Contributors

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