MEGAN Download Page

Please note that use of MEGAN requires a license key,  obtainable here.

Download the program here:

MEGAN_macos_3_7.dmg
MEGAN_windows_3_7.exe
MEGAN_unix_3_7.sh

Latest user manual:

Manual.  (This is also contained in the above download).

Optional accession lookup:

If you want to use accession lookup tables (not necessary if blasting against NR or NT), then you will additionally require the following file:

megan-lookup.zip

Updates of NCBI taxonomy:

To update to the latest NCBI taxonomy, download the following file:

http://www-ab2.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/megan/taxonomy/ncbi.zip 

Updates of NCBI microbial attributes:

To update to the latest NCBI microbial attributes, download the following file:

http://www-ab2.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/megan/taxonomy/microbialattributes.zip

In the installation directory of MEGAN, unzip these files in the class/resources/files directory.